Issue 20, 2012

Highly reproducible and sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering from colloidal plasmonic nanoparticlevia stabilization of hot spots in graphene oxide liquid crystal

Abstract

Although it is now well recognized that plasmonic gold/silver nanoparticle based aggregates having electromagnetic hot spots are responsible for high sensitivity in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), the high yield and reproducible production of such nanostructures are challenging and limit their practical application. Here we show a graphene oxide (GO) based approach in generating stable electromagnetic hot spots with high yield from colloidal plasmonic nanoparticles that leads to highly reproducible, stable and sensitive SERS for a wide range of molecules with Raman enhancement factors between 108 to 1011. The liquid crystalline property of dispersed GO directs the Raman probe induced controlled aggregation of plasmonic particles, restricting those aggregates to small and discrete clusters and stabilizing those clusters for longer times—offering the Raman probe induced ‘turn on’ SERS with high sensitivity and reproducibility. The presented approach is broadly applicable to different types of colloidal plasmonic particles and a wide range of Raman probes and is ideal for SERS based reliable detection of analyte at ultralow concentration.

Graphical abstract: Highly reproducible and sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering from colloidal plasmonic nanoparticle via stabilization of hot spots in graphene oxide liquid crystal

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Apr 2012
Accepted
18 Aug 2012
First published
22 Aug 2012

Nanoscale, 2012,4, 6649-6657

Highly reproducible and sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering from colloidal plasmonic nanoparticle via stabilization of hot spots in graphene oxide liquid crystal

A. Saha, S. Palmal and N. R. Jana, Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 6649 DOI: 10.1039/C2NR31035J

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