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Synthesis of gold/rare-earth-vanadate core/shell nano-

rods for integrating plasmon resonance and fluorescence
Jiahong Wang1,§, Hao Huang1,§, Daquan Zhang1, Ming Chen1, Yafang Zhang1, Xuefeng Yu1,2 (),
Li Zhou1 (), and Ququan Wang1,3 ()

1
Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of the Ministry of Education and School of Physics and
Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
2
Guangdong Key Laboratory of Nanomedicine, CAS Key Lab of Health Informatics, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Shenzhen
Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China
3
Institute for Advanced Study, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
§
These authors contributed equally to this work.

Supporting information to DOI 10.1007/s12274-015-0761-7

Figure S1 Supplementary characterizations of Au/Gd2O3 : Eu NRs: (a) wide-scale TEM image, (b) XRD patterns of AuNRs and
Au/Gd2O3 : Eu NRs, (c) survey XPS spectrum of Au/Gd2O3 : Eu NRs; (d) high-resolution XPS of C 1s. The XRD signals belonging to Gd2O3
are not obvious due to the relatively low content and the relatively poor crystallinity.

Address correspondence to Ququan Wang, qqwang@whu.edu.cn; Xuefeng Yu, yxf@whu.edu.cn; Li Zhou, zhouli@whu.edu.cn
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Figure S2 Growth process of Au/Gd2O3 : Eu NRs. (a) Absorption spectra of the samples obtained with increased reaction time. (b)–(e)
TEM images of the samples obtained at (a) 0 , (b) 1, (c) 2, and (d) 5 h during the growth.

Figure S3 Schematic illustration and product TEM images of (a) proposed and (b) control experiments for growth of Au/Gd2O3 : Eu
NRs. In the control experiment, free NaOL was directly add into CTAB-AuNRs with Gd(NO3)3 and HMT.

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Figure S4 TEM images of Au/Gd2O3 : Eu NRs synthesized (a) without and (b) with stirring. By products can be found in (b).

Figure S5 TEM images of Au/Gd2O3 : Eu NRs synthesized using (a) NaOH or (b) NH3·H2O to replace HMT as the base source.

Figure S6 EDX spectra of (a) Au/Nd2O3 NRs and (b) Au/Yb2O3 NRs. Corresponding TEM images of (c) Au/Nd2O3 NRs and (d) Au/
Yb2O3 NRs.

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Figure S7 Supplementary characterizations of Au/GdVO4 : Eu NRs: (a) wide-scale TEM image, and (b) survey XPS spectrum.

Figure S8 (a)–(d) TEM images, (e) absorption spectra, and (f) fluorescence emission spectra of the Au/GdVO4 : Eu NRs samples
obtained with increased reaction time.

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