| Abstract | An approach to prepare metal nanoparticle-polymer microbeads with integrated Raman tags using SERS as reliable diagnostic tool is reported. In essence, spectroscopically encoded (4-thioacetyl)styrenes were assembled on well-characterized 50 nm Au NPs and subjected to suspension polymerization conditions using styrene and methacrylic acid as comonomers and divinylbenzene as crosslinker. The resulting metal embedded nanocomposites were characterized by SEM, TEM, DSC, TGA, Raman and SERS to determine their morphology, particle size, composition, thermal stability and their optical and electronic properties. |
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