Roughened silver microtubes for reproducible and quantitative SERS using a template-assisted electrosynthesis approach

Abstract The synthesis and application of silver microtube substrates for quantification by surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is presented in this work. The roughened silver microtubes were prepared by template assisted electrosynthesis method. Using rhodamine 6G as a Raman probe molecule, the silver microtubes were tested for SERS determination, demonstrating a high performance for quantitative analysis with high precision and low data dispersion (%RSD