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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 1517-1525Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08462a
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- DRDO, India
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Herein we demonstrate the synthesis of Ag-Cu alloy NPs through a consecutive two-step process; laser ablation followed by laser irradiation. Initially, pure Ag and Cu NPs were produced individually using the laser ablation in liquid technique (with similar to 50 femtosecond pulses at 800 nm) which was followed by laser irradiation of the mixed Ag and Cu NPs in equal volume. These Ag, Cu, and Ag-Cu NPs were characterised by UV-visible absorption, HRTEM and XRD techniques. The alloy formation was confirmed by the presence of a single surface plasmon resonance peak in absorption spectra and elemental mapping using FESEM techniques. Furthermore, the results from surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) studies performed for the methylene blue (MB) molecule suggested that Ag-Cu alloy NPs demonstrate a higher enhancement factor (EF) compared to pure Ag/Cu NPs. Additionally, SERS studies of Ag-Cu alloy NPs were implemented for the detection of explosive molecules such as picric acid (PA - 5 mu M), ammonium nitrate (AN - 5 mu M) and the dye molecule methylene blue (MB - 5 nM). These alloy NPs exhibited superiority in the detection of various analyte molecules with good reproducibility and high sensitivity with EFs in the range of 10(4) to 10(7).
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