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ACS OMEGA
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 2850-2860Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c05707
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- TAMU
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station
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By electroless displacement, we optimized a novel set of SERS-active thin-film substrates and studied the impact of AgNO3 concentration on substrate performance, achieving detection of the toxic biocide CMIT.
Several reports present methods to fabricate thin-film substrates capable of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Substrates synthesized by displacing silver onto copper using facile synthesis methods such as galvanic displacement can generate high levels of SERS enhancement rivaling commercially available substrates manufactured by lithographic methods. Here, we describe the optimization of a novel set of SERS-active thin-film substrates synthesized via the electroless displacement of Ag onto the surface of three-dimensional (3D) printed disks composed of the copper/polymer (PLA) composite filament. The effect of AgNO3 concentration on the deposition, morphology, and overall SERS activity of the substrates has been carefully studied. Two commonly used Raman reporters, 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (MBA) and malachite green isothiocyanate (MGITC), were used to measure the SERS output of the substrates. Good SERS signal reproducibility (RSD similar to 16.8%) was measured across the surface of replicate substrates and high-sensitivity detection of MBA was achieved (10(-12) M). To test the real-world application of our substrates, we opted to detect 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one (CMIT), which is a genotoxic, biocide common in many household products, known to leach into water supplies. Our newly developed SERS-active substrates could detect CMIT down to 10 ppm when spiked in simulated lake water samples, which is well within current agency standards.
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