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Large-Scale Fabrication of Ultrasensitive and Uniform Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates for the Trace Detection of Pesticides
- Source :
- Nanomaterials, Volume 8, Issue 7, Nanomaterials, Vol 8, Iss 7, p 520 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018.
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Abstract
- Technology transfer from laboratory into practical application needs to meet the demands of economic viability and operational simplicity. This paper reports a simple and convenient strategy to fabricate large-scale and ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates. In this strategy, no toxic chemicals or sophisticated instruments are required to fabricate the SERS substrates. On one hand, Ag nanoparticles (NPs) with relatively uniform size were synthesized using the modified Tollens method, which employs an ultra-low concentration of Ag+ and excessive amounts of glucose as a reducing agent. On the other hand, when a drop of the colloidal Ag NPs dries on a horizontal solid surface, the droplet becomes ropy, turns into a layered structure under gravity, and hardens. During evaporation, capillary flow was burdened by viscidity resistance from the ropy glucose solution. Thus, the coffee-ring effect is eliminated, leading to a uniform deposition of Ag NPs. With this method, flat Ag NPs-based SERS active films were formed in array-well plates defined by hole-shaped polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) structures bonded on glass substrates, which were made for convenient detection. The strong SERS activity of these substrates allowed us to reach detection limits down to 10&minus<br />14 M of Rhodamine 6 G and 10&minus<br />10 M of thiram (pesticide).
- Subjects :
- Fabrication
Materials science
General Chemical Engineering
Coffee ring effect
Nanotechnology
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
Article
lcsh:Chemistry
Rhodamine
chemistry.chemical_compound
Colloid
symbols.namesake
General Materials Science
Ag NPs
Detection limit
pesticide detection
Polydimethylsiloxane
SERS
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Evaporation (deposition)
0104 chemical sciences
lcsh:QD1-999
chemistry
symbols
coffee ring
0210 nano-technology
Raman scattering
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20794991
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nanomaterials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c91c26b2317d97e02169e3b8cec9775d
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/nano8070520