Nanoporous gold decorated with silver nanoparticles as large area efficient SERS substrate

Author(s):  
Denis Garoli ◽  
Eugenio Calandrini ◽  
Paolo Ponzellini ◽  
Matteo Ardini ◽  
Sandro Cattarin ◽  
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Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi Bai ◽  
Yongjun Du ◽  
Chunyan Wang ◽  
Jian Wu ◽  
Koji Sugioka

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has advanced over the last four decades and has become an attractive tool for highly sensitive analysis in fields such as medicine and environmental monitoring. Recently, there has been an urgent demand for reusable and long-lived SERS substrates as a means of reducing the costs associated with this technique To this end, we fabricated a SERS substrate comprising a silicon nanowire array coated with silver nanoparticles, using metal-assisted chemical etching followed by photonic reduction. The morphology and growth mechanism of the SERS substrate were carefully examined and the performance of the fabricated SERS substrate was tested using rhodamine 6G and dopamine hydrochloride. The data show that this new substrate provides an enhancement factor of nearly 1 × 108. This work demonstrates that a silicon nanowire array coated with silver nanoparticles is sensitive and sufficiently robust to allow repeated reuse. These results suggest that this newly developed technique could allow SERS to be used in many commercial applications.


2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 3375-3387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongqiang Zhang ◽  
Guisheng Zou ◽  
Lei Liu ◽  
Hao Tong ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
...  

Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiliang Zhang ◽  
Tiantian Si ◽  
Jun Liu ◽  
Guowei Zhou

The rapid sampling and efficient collection of target molecules from a real-world surface is fairly crucial for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) to detect trace pesticide residues in the environment and in agriculture fields. In this work, a versatile approach was exploited to fabricate a flexible SERS substrate for highly sensitive detection of carbaryl pesticides, using in-situ grown silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)on non-woven (NW) fabric surfaces based on mussel-inspired polydopamine (PDA) molecules. The obtained NW@PDA@AgNPs fabrics showed extremely sensitive and reproducible SERS signals toward crystal violet (CV) molecules, and the detection limit was as low as 1.0 × 10−12 M. More importantly, these NW@PDA@AgNPs fabrics could be directly utilized as flexible SERS substrates for the rapid extraction and detection of trace carbaryl pesticides from various fruit surfaces through a simple swabbing approach. It was identified that the detection limits of carbaryl residues from apple, orange, and banana surfaces were approximately decreased to 4.02 × 10−12, 6.04 × 10−12, and 5.03 × 10−12 g, respectively, demonstrating high sensitivity and superior reliability. These flexible substrates could not only drastically increase the collection efficiency from multifarious irregular-shaped matrices, but also greatly enhance analytical sensitivity and reliability for carbaryl pesticides. The fabricated flexible and multifunctional SERS substrates would have great potential to trace pesticide residue detection in the environment and bioscience fields.


2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 1274-1287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran M. Shaikh ◽  
Shrikrishna D. Sartale

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 3460-3466
Author(s):  
Yuanchun Zhao ◽  
Qijia Zhang ◽  
Liping Ma ◽  
Peng Song ◽  
Lixin Xia

Semiconductor materials are favoured in the field of SERS catalysis due to their unique optoelectronic properties.


2017 ◽  
Vol 184 (9) ◽  
pp. 3505-3511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihui Luo ◽  
Lina Chen ◽  
Chunjie Liang ◽  
Qingmin Wei ◽  
Yuan Chen ◽  
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