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Controlled Assembly of Plasmonic Nanostructures Templated by Porous Anodic Alumina Membranes

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Non-lithographic template-based approach, especially the porous anodic alumina (PAA) template, owing to its long-range ordering self-assembly hexagonal cells, facile controllability of various configuration shapes, excellent reproducibility, easy fabrication and modest cost, have attracted much attentions these days. Recent research interests of our group are based on this promising template. Several plasmonic nanostructures based on the PAA membranes were successfully fabricated, which were applied to surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensing, the process of tailoring fluorescence as well as surface-enhanced fluorescence cellular imaging. Our recent plasmonic research results based on the PAA membranes and their applications are reviewed here.

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This work was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 51271057 and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China, under Grant No. BK2012757.

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Fan, X., Hao, Q., Qiu, T. (2016). Controlled Assembly of Plasmonic Nanostructures Templated by Porous Anodic Alumina Membranes. In: Geddes, C. (eds) Reviews in Plasmonics 2015. Reviews in Plasmonics, vol 2015. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24606-2_10

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