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Au monolayer film coating with graphene oxide for surface enhanced Raman effect

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A self-terminated electrochemical atomic layer deposition process is developed to fabricate Au monolayer (ML) film layer-by-layer. It is found that the under potential deposited hydrogen (Hupd) provides perfect termination after each ML deposition and the further ML growth can be replicated after a surface activation using a positive potential to remove the Hupd layer. Voltammetric measurements, deposition current analysis, and EQCM show clear characteristics of UPD hydrogen surface termination and the ML deposition. Both XRR and HREED confirm the Au ML film formation. Moreover, the Au ML film appears to be effective for surface enhanced Raman effect of GO on the Au ML film.

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This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51673157, 21706218), the National Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi (2017JQ2013), the Scientific Research Foundation of Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Government, China (17JK1164), High-level Talent Research Fund of Xijing University (XJ17T01), and Scientific Research Project of Sichuan University of Science and Engineering (2017RCL70).

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  1. Lab of Organic Polymer Photovoltaic Materials, School of Science, Xijing University, Xi’an, 710123, Shaanxi, China

    Qiang Ma, Min Zhu, Yuzhen Zhao, Siyi Ding, Shaopeng Tian, Huaping Ren & Zongcheng Miao

  2. School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, 643000, China

    Xianpei Ren

  3. Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN) UMR CNRS 8520, University Lille, Lille, France

    Liuqing Pang

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Ma, Q., Ren, X., Pang, L. et al. Au monolayer film coating with graphene oxide for surface enhanced Raman effect. Gold Bull 51, 27–33 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-018-0226-3

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