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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 11, 期 34, 页码 7381-7389出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b904744a
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- NSERC
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- British Columbia Knowledge and Development Fund (BCKDF)
- University of Victoria through the New Opportunities Program.
Highly sensitive SERS substrates with a limit of detection in the zeptomole (for Nile blue A and oxazine 720) range were fabricated through a bottom-up strategy. Ag nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were self-assembled onto glass slides by using 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPTMS) sol-gel as linker. The substrates were characterized by UV-Vis and AFM after each deposition of Ag NPs. It was found that the glass slide presented just a few Ag NPs aggregates scattered throughout the surface after just one deposition. The glass surface was gradually covered by a homogeneous distribution of Ag NPs aggregates as the deposition number increased. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of the substrates was examined at different numbers of Ag NPs deposition using nile blue A and oxazine 720 as probe molecules and two laser excitations (632.8 nm and 785 nm). Optimum SERS was observed after six depositions of Ag NPs. SERS mapping indicated that at lower deposition numbers (less than 3 Ag NPs depositions) the substrates presented a few SERS hot-spots'' randomly distributed at the surface. After 7 Ag NPs depositions, spatial distribution of the SERS signal followed a Gaussian statistics, with a percent relative standard deviation (RSD%) of similar to 19%. In addition, the sample-to-sample reproducibility of the SERS intensities under both laser excitations was lower than 20%. It was also found that these substrates can provide giant Raman signal enhancement. At optimum conditions and with a 632.8 nm laser, the signal from an estimated of only similar to 44 probe molecules (100x objective) can still be detected.
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