Title

Health Consumer Susceptibility To Medical Care Fraud: An Exploratory Analysis

Abstract

Studying the correlation between the molecular structures of SERS-active analytes and their SERS enhancement factors is important to our fundamental understanding of SERS chemical enhancement. Using a common internal reference method, we quantitatively compared the Raman activities, SERS activities, and SERS enhancement factors for a series of organothiols that differ significantly in their structural characteristics and reported chemical enhancements. We find that while the tested molecules vary tremendously in their normal Raman and SERS activities (by more than 4 orders of magnitude), their SERS enhancement factors are very similar (the largest difference is less than 1 order of magnitude). This result strongly suggests that SERS chemical enhancement factors are not as diverse as initially believed. In addition to shedding critical insight on the SERS phenomena, the common internal reference method developed in this work provides a simple and reliable way for systematic investigation of the correlation between molecular structures and their normal Raman and SERS activities. © 2012 American Chemical Society.

Publication Date

3-1-2012

Publication Title

International Journal of Public Policy

Volume

8

Issue

5

Number of Pages

136-148

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJPP.2012.045878

Socpus ID

84863350986 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84863350986

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