Journal
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 825, Issue -, Pages 51-56Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2014.03.037
Keywords
Localized surface plasmon resonance; Mercury; Optical sensor; Silver/gold nanocage
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21075086]
- Project of Scientific and Technologic Infrastructure of Suzhou [SZS201207]
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We demonstrate the utilization of silver/gold nanocages (Ag/Au NCs) deposited onto transparent indium tin oxide (ITO) film glass as the basis of a reagentless, simple and inexpensive mercury probe. The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) peak wavelength was located at similar to 800 nm. By utilizing the redox reaction between Hg2+ ions and Ag atoms that existed in Ag/Au NCs, the LSPR peak of Ag/Au NCs was blue-shifted. Thus, we develop an optical sensing probe for the detection of Hg2+ ions. The LSPR peak changes were lineally proportional to the concentration of Hg2+ ions over the range from 10 ppb to 0.5 ppm. The detection limit was similar to 5 ppb. This plasmonic probe shows good selectivity and high sensitivity. The proposed optical probe is successfully applied to the sensing of Hg2+ in real samples. (C) 2014 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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