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CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
Volume 20, Issue 6, Pages 711-715Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2009.02.001
Keywords
SERS; Ultratrace detection; Crystal violet; Silver nanoparticle; Electrolysis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10864001]
- Foundation of Science and Technology Department of Yunnan province [2005PY01-51]
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Highly active, stable and affordable surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates were obtained by electrolyzing a mixture of AgNO3 (4 x 10(-4) mol/L) and Na3C6H5O7 center dot H2O (6 x 10(-5) mol/L) for 1, 2,3 and 4 h at 7 V. With crystal violet (CV) as a test molecule, a portable Raman spectrometer with 785 nm laser excitation was employed to carry out the SERS detection. Colloidal Ag nanoparticles prepared by electrolyzing for 3 h with the particle size of (65 +/- 17) nm is a perfect SERS substrate for the ultratrace detection of CV, which displayed an enhancement factor of ca. 1.3 x 10(8) and the detection limit of CV is down to ca. 10(-15) mol/L (ca. 10(-4) ppb) with 10(-1) mol/L KBr as aggregating agent. Thus, this SERS substrate will provide a hopeful foreground in ultratrace detection. Meanwhile, it will provide a possibility to bring Raman analysis out of the laboratory to process in situ, real-time detection and identification. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society.
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