Fluorescence Microscopy of Corrole-Single Silver Nanowire Hybrid Nanostructures

We report on confocal microscopy imaging of hybrid nanostructures composed of silver nanowires and corroles. Both nanomaterials were separated by a 30 nm thick $SiO_2$ spacer in order to inhibit fluorescence quenching. The results show that for such a hybrid nanostructure the average enhancement of the fluorescence intensity reached 2.5. Importantly, the coupling to plasmon excitations in metallic nanowires leaves no effect on the fluorescence spectrum of the organic molecules.