Journal
CHEMOSENSORS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors10020077
Keywords
fiber optic sensor; gold nanoparticles; silver nanoparticles; localized surface plasmon resonance; Layer-by-Layer Embedding; mercury; hydrogen peroxide
Funding
- Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) [PID2019-106070RB-I00]
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An optical fiber sensor based on the localized surface plasmon resonance phenomenon has been designed for the detection of two different chemical species (mercury and hydrogen peroxide) using Layer-by-Layer Embedding as a nanofabrication technique. Silver nanoparticles and gold nanoparticles have been synthesized and incorporated into nanometric thin films. The spectral response of the sensor provides a stable real-time reference measurement.
In this work, an optical fiber sensor based on the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) phenomenon has been designed for the detection of two different chemical species (mercury and hydrogen peroxide) by using Layer-by-Layer Embedding (LbL-E) as a nanofabrication technique. In the first step, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been synthesized by using a chemical protocol as a function of the strict control of three main parameters, which were polyelectrolyte concentration, a loading agent, and a reducing agent. In the second step, their incorporation into nanometric thin films have been demonstrated as a function of the number of bilayers, which shows two well-located absorption peaks associated to their LSPR in the visible region at 420 nm (AgNPs) and 530 nm (AuNPs). Finally, both plasmonic peaks provide a stable real-time reference measurement, which can be extracted from the spectral response of the optical fiber sensor, which shows a specific sensing mechanism as a function of the analyte of study.
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