Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 6, Issue 13, Pages 7232-7236Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr01712a
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- NSF [CHE-1308644]
- CCI Center for Nanostructured Electronic Materials [CHE-1038015]
- ORAU
- Sigma Xi, Junior Faculty Research Award from the Florida Chapter
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The widespread implementation of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) techniques for chemical and biological detection requires an inexpensive, yet robust SERS substrate with high sensitivity and reproducibility. To that end, we present a facile method to fabricate plasmonic SERS substrates with well-distributed SERS hot spots on a large scale with reproducible SERS enhancement factors of similar to 10(8) for the Raman probe molecule 4-aminobenzenethiol (4-ABT). The SERS enhancement is attributed to the synergistic interactions between the strong plasmonic coupling among the assembled Au NPs and the structure-associated tip enhancement. Additionally, these mechanically-flexible substrates exhibit remarkably reproducible SERS signals, demonstrating the merits of our methodology. Our approach illustrates the potential opportunities for fabricating robust, commercially-viable SERS substrates with well-distributed hot spots on a large scalewhile avoiding costly vacuum deposition technologies.
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