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NANOSCALE
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 4781-4788Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3nr06483b
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- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2013CB934304]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11274312, 11175204, 21201168]
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We report on a synthetic approach to produce self-supported flexible surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) active membranes consisting of polyamide (PA) nanofibers grafted with vertical Ag-nanosheets, via a combinatorial process of electrospinning PA-nanofiber membranes, assembling Au-nanoparticles on the PA-nanofibers as seeds for subsequent growth of Ag-nanosheets, and electrodepositing Ag-nanosheets on the electrospun PA-nanofibers. As a high density of Ag-nanosheets are vertically grown around each PA-nanofiber in the three-dimensional (3D) networked PA-nanofiber membranes, homogeneous nanoscaled gaps between the neighboring Ag-nanosheets are formed, leading to a high density of 3D SERS hot spots within the Ag-nanosheet-grafted PA-nanofiber membranes. The Ag-nanosheet-grafted PA-nanofiber membranes demonstrate high SERS activity with excellent Raman signal reproducibility for rhodamine 6G over the whole membrane. For a SERS-based trial analysis of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs, a kind of global environmental hazard), the 3D SERS substrate membranes are modified with mono-6-beta-cychlodextrin to effectively capture PCB molecules. As a result, not only a low concentration down to 10(-6) M is reached, but also two congeners of PCBs in their mixed solution are identified, showing promising potential in SERS-based rapid detection of trace organic pollutants such as PCBs in the environment.
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