The aliphatic double bond of poly(2-cinnamoylethyl methacrylate) (PCEMA) displayed a characteristic surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) peak at 1640 cm(-1). Polystyrene(PS), together with the phenyl rings of PCEMA, contributed to the peak at 1005 cm(-1). We determined the intensity ratio of these two peaks, i.e. I-1640/I-1005, for PS-b-PCEMA films deposited, from THF/cyclopentane (CP) mixtures, on silver and silicate-covered silver (or silica) surfaces. In THF/CP with CP volume fractions, f(CP), between 0.60 and 0.90, the I-1640/I-1005 values were large. Since only these species which are in the immediate neighborhood of a roughened metal substrate, e.g. within similar to 100 Angstrom, yield SERS responses, these data suggest that PS-b-PCEMA were adsorbed by silica and silver in the brush conformation, with PCEMA as the anchoring layer and PS as the buoy layer, in THF/CP with f(CP) between 0.60 and 0.90. At low f(CP)’s, PS-b-PCEMA samples did not adsorb on silica but did on silver. SERS results suggest that the adsorption on silver might be via either styrene or CEMA as the anchoring group. At high f(CP)’s, PS-b-PCEMA micelles adsorbed. Brush formation at intermediate f(CP) and micelle adsorption at high f(CP) were directly confirmed by transmission electron microscopy for one of our PS-b-PCEMA samples. SERS results also suggest one of the possible mechanisms for PS-b-PCEMA adsorption was tia the anchoring of micelles first. The micelles subsequently disintegrated on an adsorbate if f(CP) was not too high and the rate for micelle dissociation was sufficiently fast.