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COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS
Volume 492, Issue -, Pages 263-272Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2015.11.076
Keywords
Green synthesis; Au@Ag nanostructure; Seed-mediated; EGCG; SERS
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21273194]
- Foundation of He'nan Educational Committee [15A150028]
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A facile bottom-up green synthetic route is reported by using epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) extract from tea leaves as a reducing and stabilizing agent in aqueous solution to produce silver nanostructures through a seed-mediated method at room temperature. The obtained gold core silver shell nanostructures (Au@Ag), whose sizes can be tuned through adjusting the amount of seeds, present polygonal morphologies. Meanwhile, the formation mechanism of Au@Ag nanoparticle has been investigated, in which Au-seeds act as nucleation sites for the formation of silver nanoparticles. The as-prepared Au@Ag nanostructure deposited on the glass plate can become the substrate of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), which has the obvious SERS effect when rhodamine 6 G (R6G) is used as the probe molecular. The above results indicate that the more irregular the shape of Au@Ag nanostructure becomes and the larger the size of nanoparticle gets, the stronger the SERS signal is. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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