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Title: | Rapid Fabrication of a Flexible and Transparent Ag Nanocubes@PDMS Film as a SERS Substrate with High Performance | Authors: | Li, Limin Chin, Wee Shong |
Keywords: | Science & Technology Technology Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Materials Science, Multidisciplinary Science & Technology - Other Topics Materials Science plasmonic Ag nanocube arrays self-assembly surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) flexible and transparent substrates poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) ENHANCED RAMAN-SCATTERING FACILE SYNTHESIS SURFACE NANOPARTICLES SPECTROSCOPY MONOLAYER CATALYSIS MELAMINE PLATFORM ARRAYS |
Issue Date: | 19-Aug-2020 | Publisher: | AMER CHEMICAL SOC | Citation: | Li, Limin, Chin, Wee Shong (2020-08-19). Rapid Fabrication of a Flexible and Transparent Ag Nanocubes@PDMS Film as a SERS Substrate with High Performance. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 12 (33) : 37538-37548. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c07178 | Abstract: | Flexible and transparent surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates have long been sought-After for nondestructive detection of analytes on nonplanar surfaces, but there is still a lack of one convenient and robust way to fabricate such SERS substrates rapidly. Herein, we demonstrate the fabrication of a high-performance SERS substrate consisting of plasmonic Ag nanocube (Ag NC) arrays anchored onto a flexible transparent poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) membrane. Through a simple organic/water interfacial self-Assembly method, arrays of presynthesized Ag NCs are obtained and directly retrieved onto the PDMS membrane without the aid of rigid substrates (e.g., Si wafers or glass slides). The plasmonic Ag NC arrays can produce strong electromagnetic enhancement, achieving high SERS enhancement factor (3.43 × 106) and ideal detection capability for methylene blue (MB) and Rhodamine 6G (R6G) at respective trace amounts of 10-10 and 10-9 M. Moreover, without the need to transfer from substrate to substrate, the regular Ag NC arrays are kept intact, thereby yielding a good reproducibility (RSD 12%). We demonstrate further that our as-fabricated SERS substrate displays ideal selectivity toward different kinds of analyte molecules (R6G, crystal violet (CV), and MB) based on principal component analysis. The PDMS membrane owns excellent transparency and flexibility; thus, the substrate enables the conformal contact with nonplanar surfaces and allows the penetration of a laser to reach the analytes from the reverse side of the substrate. This thus facilitates in situ SERS detection of trace residual crystal violet on fish skin, with limit of detection (LOD) reaching 0.6 ppm. This fabrication method reported here is economical and easily implemented. The robust Ag NCs@PDMS could be readily prepared and stored to meet diverse SERS sensing applications, especially for in situ detection of analytes on irregular nonplanar surfaces. | Source Title: | ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/193160 | ISSN: | 19448244 19448252 |
DOI: | 10.1021/acsami.0c07178 |
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