Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 9, Issue 47, Pages 41577-41585Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b13965
Keywords
surface plasmon resonance; silver; core-shell nanoparticles; SERS; layer-by-layer; nanogap; COMSOL Multiphysics
Funding
- FWO Vlaanderen
- Hercules foundation
- FWO Vlaanderen [G038215N]
- European Research Council (ERC) [335078-COLOURATOM]
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Silver nanoparticles are widely used in the field of plasmonics because of their unique optical properties. The wavelength-dependent surface plasmon resonance gives rise to a strongly enhanced electromagnetic field, especially at so-called hot spots located in the nanogap in-between metal nanoparticle assemblies. Therefore, the interparticle distance is a decisive factor in plasmonic applications, such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). In this study, the aim is to engineer this interparticle distance for silver nanospheres using a convenient wet-chemical approach and to predict and quantify the corresponding enhancement factor using both theoretical and experimental tools. This was done by building a tunable ultrathin polymer shell around the nanoparticles using the layer-by-layer method, in which the polymer shell acts as the separating interparticle spacer layer. Comparison of different theoretical approaches and corroborating the results with SERS analytical experiments using silver and silver polymer core shell nanoparticle clusters as SERS substrates was also done. Herewith, an approach is provided to estimate the extent of plasmonic near-field enhancement both theoretically as well as experimentally.
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