Gold nanoparticles as a substrate in bio-analytical near-infrared surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c4an01899k Click here for additional data file.

“Large” nanoparticles potentially are a good starting point in order to derive informative NIR/IR SERS analysis of biological samples.

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