Ag@Au core-shell dendrites: a stable, reusable and sensitive surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate

作者：Hong Yin, Zhao Yang Chen, Yong Zhao, Ming Lv, Chun An Shi, Zheng Wu, Xin Zhang, Luo Liu, Ming Li Wang, Hai Xu · 发表于：Scientific Reports · 年份：2015 · DOI：10.1038/srep14502 · 被引用次数：78 · 研究领域：Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications、Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications、Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate based on fabricated Ag@Au core-shell dendrite was achieved. Ag dendrites were grown on Si wafer by the hydrothermal corrosion method and Au nanofilm on the surface of Ag dendritic nanostructure was then fabricated by chemical reduction. With the help of sodium borohydride in water, Au surface absorbates such as thiophene, adenine, rhodamine, small anions (Br(-) and I(-)), and a polymer (PVP, poly(N-vinylpyrrolidone)) can be completely and rapidly removed. After four repeatable experiments, the substrate SERS function did not decrease at all, indicating that the Ag@Au dendrite should be of great significance to SERS application because it can save much resource. Six-month-duration stability tests showed that the Ag@Au core-shell dendrite substrate is much more stable than the Ag dendrite substrates. We have also experimented on fast detection of Cd(2+) at 10(-8) M concentration by decorating single-stranded DNA containing adenine and guanine bases on the surface of this Ag@Au dendrite. Finite-difference time-domain simulations were carried out to investigate the influence of Au nanolayer on Ag dendrites, which showed that the local electric fields and enhancement factor are hardly affected when a 4 nm Au nanolayer is coated on Ag dendrite surface.