Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 5, Issue 30, Pages 7465-7471Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7tc01761h
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51473065, 21473068, 21474043, 21327803]
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The self-assembly of noble metal nanoparticles into new-fashioned one, two and three-dimensional structures is very important due to their superior properties in optics, electrics, catalysis, and chemical sensing compared with individual nanoparticles. Here, we first report a facile one-step approach that allows the fabrication of assembled Au nanorices induced by polyaniline (PANI). During the synthesis, a complex of HAuCl4-(3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APTES) acts as both a soft template and an oxidant; then the reduction of HAuCl4 is accompanied by the oxidation of aniline, resulting in the formation of Au nanorices within a PANI matrix. The application of the prepared Au/PANI nanorices as enzyme mimics toward the oxidation of 3,3 ',5,5 '-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) is demonstrated. The resultant Au/PANI nanorices display an enhanced peroxidase-like catalytic activity compared with individual Au nanospheres and PANI nanofibers alone, revealing a synergistic effect between Au and PANI components in the Au/PANI nanorices. The Au/PANI nanorices are also used as efficient surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates for in situ monitoring of the oxidation process of TMB during the peroxidase-like catalytic reaction. On the basis of the SERS technique, a discernible detection level of H2O2 as low as 10(-8) M is obtained. We envision that such a system may show more potential applications in biocatalysis, disease diagnosis and environmental monitoring.
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