Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800 (Australia) http://www.udobach.com; The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia).
Abstract:
Nanorods standing at attention! A self-assembly technique based on convective and capillary forces was used for the direct fabrication of standing arrays of gold nanorods on lithographically predefined areas. The hexagonal close-packed structure of gold nanorods creates an ideal substrate for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.