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Tipping point

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Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy can be used to characterize the relationship between the topography and the chemical activity of individual surface sites.

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Figure 1: Nanoscale resolution at a Pd/Au interface using Raman spectroscopy.

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  1. Guillaume Goubert and Richard P. Van Duyne are in the Chemistry Department, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA,

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Goubert, G., Van Duyne, R. Tipping point. Nature Nanotech 12, 100–101 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.266

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