scholarly journals Sensitive and Selective Detection of New Red Colorant Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Molecularly Imprinted Hydrogels

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 2672 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Neng ◽  
Kaiyun Xu ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Kan Jia ◽  
Qi Zhang ◽  
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A polyacrylamide-based molecularly imprinted hydrogel (MIH) doped with positively charged gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) has been synthesized via a free radical polymerization of acrylamide (AM) aqueous solution containing positively charged Au NPs as a Raman active substrate, New Red colorant as a template molecule, N,N’-methylenebis(acrylamide) as a crosslinking agent, and potassium persulfate as an initiator. The Au NPs-doped MIHs were subsequently explored as a Raman active substrate for the sensitive and selective detection of New Red colorant via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The logarithmic intensity of the characteristic peak of New Red at 1572 cm−1 was proportional to the logarithmic concentration of New Red with a detection linear range of 1.64 × 10−6 to 1.64 × 10−4 M and a limit of detection (LOD) of 1.64 × 10−7 M. The recoveries ranged from 86.3% to 100.6% with a relative standard deviation (RSD) in the range of 2.3% to 7.7%. The RSD and recovery rates for the detection of New Red spiked in a sports drink sample were 1.8% to 7.7% and 91.0% to 97.1%, respectively. These results showed that SERS combined with MIHs as Raman active substrates could provide a sensitive, selective, and effective approach for the detection of the New Red colorant in beverage matrix.

Coatings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Yilmaz

The controlled deposition of nanoparticles onto 3-D nanostructured films is still facing challenges due to the uncontrolled aggregation of colloidal nanoparticles. In the context of this study, a simple yet effective approach is demonstrated to decorate the silver nanoparticles (AgNP) onto the 3-D and anisotropic gold nanorod arrays (GNAs) through a bioinspired polydopamine (PDOP) coating to fabricate surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) platforms. Since the Raman reporter molecules (methylene blue, MB, 10 µM) were not adsorbed directly on the surface of the plasmonic material, a remarkable decrease in SERS signals was detected for the PDOP-coated GNAs (GNA@PDOP) platforms. However, after uniform and well-controlled AgNP decoration on the GNA@PDOP (GNA@PDOP@AgNP), huge enhancement was observed in SERS signals from the resultant platform due to the synergistic action which originated from the interaction of GNAs and AgNPs. I also detected that PDOP deposition time (i.e., PDOP film thickness) is the dominant parameter that determines the SERS activity of the final system and 30 min of PDOP deposition time (i.e., 3 nm of PDOP thickness) is the optimum value to obtain the highest SERS signal. To test the reproducibility of GNA@PDOP@AgNP platforms, relative standard deviation (RSD) values for the characteristic peaks of MB were found to be less than 0.17, demonstrating the acceptable reproducibility all over the proposed platform. This report suggests that GNA@PDOP@AgNP system may be used as a robust platform for practical SERS applications.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 8241-8247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mei-Ling Zhang ◽  
Wu-Li-Ji Hasi ◽  
Xiang Lin ◽  
Xiao-Rong Zhao ◽  
Xiu-Tao Lou ◽  
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A rapid and simple SERS method for detecting pethidine hydrochloride injection utilizing silver aggregates as the active substrate was developed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinhui Zhao ◽  
Ping Liu ◽  
Haichao Yuan ◽  
Yijie Peng ◽  
Qian Hong ◽  
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A rapid detection method based on surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was proposed in this paper in order to realize the detection of tetracycline residues in duck meat. Firstly, surface enhanced Raman spectra characteristics of tetracycline aqueous solution, duck meat extract, and duck meat extract containing tetracycline were analyzed. Secondly, the effect of the addition amount of duck meat extract containing tetracycline on SERS intensity and the effect of the adsorption time on SERS intensity were discussed, respectively. Thirdly, SERS intensity ratio at 1272 and 1558 cm−1 (I1272/I1558) was used to establish the SERS calibration curve. A good linearity relationship between the tetracycline concentration in duck meat extract and I1272/I1558 was obtained, and the linear regression equation and the correlation coefficient (r) were y=0.0177x+0.1213 and 0.950, respectively. The average recovery of tetracycline in duck meat extract was 101~108% with relative standard deviation (RSD) of 2.4~4.6%. The experimental results showed that the method proposed in this paper was a good detection scheme for the rapid detection of tetracycline residues in duck meat.


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