Figure 1.
(a) Schematic diagram of a rotating nanomotor sensor releasing molecules. (b) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of a plasmonic nanorod for the nanomotor rotor made of a three layer structure with a Au-Ni-Au nanowire as the core, a silica coating, and a dense layer of Ag nanoparticles on the outer surface of silica, (c) a higher magnification SEM image shows the dense Ag nanoparticles grown on the silica. (d) Raman mapping of 1 μM R6G dispersed on a plasmonic nanomotor rotor showing essentially uniform SERS intensity on the surface.