Preparation of paper-based SERS substrates by screen printing and property research

An efficient surface enhanced Raman scattering(SERS)substrate was prepared by screen printing silver ink on drawing paper, white card paper and coordinate paper. The results showed that silver film/drawing paper represented the best SERS activity, followed by silver film/white card paper and silver film/coordinate paper. The minimum detection limits for crystal violet were 10-8, 10-7 and 10-7 mol·L-1, respectively. In addition, ten different positions were randomly selected on the same silver film/drawing paper surface, and the relative standard deviation values of the peak intensitiesat 913, 1 179 and 1 620 cm-1 were 13.2%, 12.5% and 10.6%, respectively, which indicated outstanding uniformity.