Journal
NANOMATERIALS
Volume 9, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano9091211
Keywords
SERS; silver sol; metal nanoparticles; DFT calculations; 4-cyanopyridine
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- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CTQ2015-65816-R]
- Italian Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR) [RBFR1248UI_002]
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A Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) spectrum of 4-cyanopyridine (4CNPy) was recorded on silver plasmonic nanoparticles and analyzed by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. Two simple molecular models of the metal-4CNPy surface complex with a single silver cation or with a neutral dimer (Ag+-4CNPy, Ag-2-4CNPy), linked through the two possible interacting sites of 4CNPy (aromatic nitrogen, N, and nitrile group, CN), were considered. The calculated vibrational wavenumbers and intensities of the adsorbate and the isolated species are compared with the experimental Raman and SERS results. The analysis of the DFT predictions and the experimental data indicates that 4CNPy adsorbs preferentially on neutral/charged active sites of the silver nanoparticles through the nitrogen atom of the aromatic ring with a perpendicular orientation.
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