Ag Nanoparticles@Au Nanograting Array as a 3D Flexible and Effective Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate. 2024

Xiang Zhang, and Mingtao Li, and Guowen Meng, and Zhulin Huang, and Shuyi Zhu, and Bin Chen
Key Laboratory of Materials Physics and Anhui Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, Institute of Solid State Physics, HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China.

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful analytical technique for chemical identification, but it remains a great challenge to realize the large-scale and well-controlled fabrication of sensitive and repeatable SERS substrates. Here, we report a facile strategy to fabricate centimeter-sized periodic Au nanograting (Au-NG) decorated with well-arranged Ag nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) (denoted as Ag-NPs@Au-NG) as a three-dimensional (3D) flexible hybrid SERS substrate with high sensitivity and good reproducibility. The Au-NG patterns with periodic ridges and grooves are fabricated through nanoimprint lithography by employing a low-cost digital versatile disc (DVD) as a master mold, and the Ag-NPs are assembled by a well-controlled interface self-assembly method without any coupling agents. Multiple coupling electromagnetic field effects are created at the nanogaps between the Ag-NPs and Au-NG patterns, leading to high-density and uniform hot spots throughout the substrate. As a result, the Ag-NPs@Au-NG arrays demonstrate an ultrahigh SERS sensitivity as low as 10-13 M for rhodamine 6G with a high average enhancement factor (EF) of 1.85 × 108 and good signal reproducibility. For practical applications, toxic organic pollutants including crystal violet, thiram, and melamine have been successfully detected with high sensitivity at a low detection limit, showing a good perspective in the rapid detection of toxic organic pollutants.

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