Ag/mSiO2空心微球的制备及SERS标记性能

以聚苯乙烯微球为模板, 经过原位还原和种子生长过程在聚苯乙烯微球表面包覆银(Ag)纳米粒子; 以正硅酸乙酯为硅源, 在十六烷基三甲基溴化铵的导向下实现介孔二氧化硅(mSiO₂)可控包覆, 去除模板得到Ag/mSiO₂空心微球. 透射电子显微镜(TEM)和氮气吸附-脱附分析结果表明, SiO₂壳层厚度约为20 nm, 介孔孔径为2.1 nm, 孔道分布均匀. 进一步利用虹吸作用使对巯基苯胺(4-ATP)分子进入微球内与Ag粒子结合, 构建表面增强拉曼散射(SERS)标记材料. SERS测试结果表明, 该标记材料检测限达到10^-7 mol/L, SERS增强因子达到3.7×10⁵.     

表面增强拉曼散射活性基底

表面增强拉曼散射(SERS)是人们将激光拉曼光谱应用到表面科学研究中所发现的异常表面光学现象。它可以将吸附在材料表面的分子的拉曼信号放大106到1014倍,这使其在探测器的应用和单分子检测方面有着巨大的发展潜力。由于分子所吸附的基底表面形态是SERS效应能否发生和SERS信号强弱的重要影响因素,所以分子的承载基体是很关键的,因而SERS活性基底的研究一直是该领域的研究热点之一。本文总结了形态各异的表面增强拉曼散射活性基底,分析了最新发展并对其未来作一展望。     

基于Kretschmann结构的金银合金薄膜的SERS效应

利用Kretschmann棱镜耦合结构和532 nm激光光源,测试了金银合金薄膜的表面增强拉曼散射(SERS)效应,并与纯金薄膜的测试结果进行了比较.结果显示,在激发光为p偏振态且入射角近似等于表面等离子体共振(SPR)角时,附着于金银合金薄膜表面的Nile Blue分子的SERS信号达到最强,比利用纯金薄膜测得的SERS信号高约2倍.实验结果还表明,在金银合金薄膜表面自组装金纳米粒子后,Nile Blue吸附层的SERS信号比自组装纳米金之前测得的信号增强了至少3倍,比利用纳米金修饰的纯金薄膜测得的信号高出2倍多.在棱镜底面沿薄膜法线收集的SERS信号是完全非偏振光,而从棱镜侧面收集的SERS信号是p偏振光,是拉曼光借助SPR效应产生的定向发射.     

水溶液中碳纳米管的表面增强拉曼光谱研究

合成了碳纳米管和金纳米颗粒的复合物, 测量了水溶液相中复合物的表面增强拉曼光谱, 结果表明, 碳纳米管的巯基化修饰可以提高碳纳米管与金纳米颗粒复合的效率, 随着金纳米颗粒负载量的增加, 碳纳米管的拉曼信号逐渐增强. 加入己二胺分子可以减小金纳米颗粒之间的距离使表面增强效应更显著, 碳纳米管的拉曼光谱得到进一步的增强. 还可进一步在复合体系中加入对巯基苯胺和罗丹明B等小分子拉曼探针, 利用金纳米颗粒的表面增强效应, 这种多元复合体系有望作为多通道拉曼成像探针材料.     

Cu2O/Ag纳米复合物的表面增强拉曼光谱

用一种简单的化学还原方法制备了银纳米粒子包覆的氧化亚铜（Cu2O）纳米复合物。扫描电子显微镜显示Cu2O 为八面体型的纳米粒子,表面光滑,结构对称。包覆的Ag部分占据Cu2O粒子表面。通过比较Ag/Cu2O纳米复合物、Ag溶胶及Cu纳米粒子表面吸附的4-巯基吡啶（4-Mpy）分子表面增强拉曼光谱（SERS）发现,利用此方法得到了Cu2O粒子表面吸附分子的拉曼光谱。银纳米粒子所产生的电磁场增强又增强了吸附在Cu2O上的4-Mpy拉曼信号。这种方法为初步研究Cu2O表面吸附分子性质提供了依据,扩宽了SERS的使用范围,使SERS应用在纳米半导体材料上成为可能。     

表面等离激元增强金属光致发光助力表面增强拉曼光谱获取表界面分子的本征化学信息

<正>表面增强拉曼光谱(SERS)因其具有单分子的检测灵敏度和特异的分子指纹信息,在表面科学和分析检测领域得到广泛关注~1。拉曼光谱研究中除了利用谱峰频率外,还利用不同谱峰间的相对强度,以获得吸附分子的吸附构象、分子与金属界面电荷转移、材料局域化学性质等多种重要物理化学信息。然而在SERS中,贵金属纳米结构的局域表面等离激元共振(LSPR)不仅增强了样品的拉曼信号的绝对强度,也改变了SERS谱图中不同谱峰的相对强度,即不同频率的拉曼信号受到的增强作用不同,从而导致用SERS峰的相对强度所获得的样品的物理化学信息变得不可靠。虽     

表面接枝分子印迹聚合物微球的合成及评价

将聚苯乙烯-二乙烯苯微球表面功能基化, 引入引发转移终止剂(initiator-transfer-terminator agent, iniferter), 以活性自由基聚合方式研究了球形树脂表面合成印迹聚合物的方法. 在紫外光引发下, 以左旋麻黄碱为印迹分子, 甲基丙烯酸为功能单体, 在接枝Iniferter后的微球表面进行分子印迹聚合物接枝实验, 并使用不同的反应条件, 探讨了表面接枝印迹层微球制备条件对于识别能力的影响. 平衡吸附的结果表明, 表面接枝聚苯乙烯-二乙烯苯微球对于印迹分子具有亲和能力及选择性, 其识别能力来自于印迹得到的识别位点.     

酞菁铅在石墨烯表面吸附行为的拉曼光谱研究

利用石墨烯增强拉曼散射效应可以获得与石墨烯接触的某些分子的拉曼增强信号, 并且对于不同的分子或振动模, 其拉曼增强因子不同. 根据这一特征, 本工作利用拉曼光谱技术对石墨烯表面上酞菁铅(PbPc)分子Langmuir-Blodgett (LB)膜在退火过程中吸附构型的变化进行了跟踪研究. 发现随着退火温度的升高, 石墨烯表面上PbPc分子的拉曼信号经历了一个先增强后减弱的过程, 在升华温度点附近强度达到最大, 表明PbPc发生了由直立向平躺取向的转变; 同时, 在PbPc分子升华温度点附近, 由于对称性破坏导致散射截面低的振动模出现, 并且该振动模强度随着退火温度的进一步升高而增强, 表明非平面的PbPc分子受石墨烯π-π相互作用的影响而形变加剧, 向平面结构转变; 在更高的退火温度下, 则出现一些不属于PbPc分子的拉曼振动峰, 表明PbPc分子在石墨烯表面由Pb(II)被还原成Pb(0).     

表面增强拉曼光谱技术在食品检测中的应用研究进展

食品污染是危害公众健康和安全的重要问题,探究灵敏、快速、简单的技术,以便在痕量水平上检测污染物,对保障食品质量安全和风险评价具有十分重要的意义.表面增强拉曼光谱(SERS)是利用光与金、银等纳米结构材料相互作用产生很强的表面等离子激元共振效应,可显著增强吸附在纳米结构表面上分子的拉曼信号,以超灵敏获取样品自身或拉曼探针...     

Au@SiO2膜/Ti电极吸附吡啶的表面增强拉曼光谱研究

基于壳层隔绝纳米粒子增强拉曼光谱技术,合成了Au@SiO₂纳米粒子,并对其进行了相关表征. 结果表明,包裹的二氧化硅层连续、致密,Au@SiO₂膜/Ti电极上可获得金属钛电极上吸附吡啶分子的高质量表面增强拉曼光谱（SERS）信号. 通过Pt、Ni电极的测试,证实该信号源于吸附在基底表面的吡啶分子. 此外,Au@SiO₂膜/Ti电极上吸附吡啶分子的现场SERS光谱研究表明,在-0.1 V ~ -0.6 V电位区间,吡啶分子平躺吸附,从-0.6 V起吸附的吡啶分子由平躺逐转变为垂直,而当电位为-1.2 V时,电极表面析氢,吡啶脱附.     

Enhanced Raman Scattering by Polystyrene Microspheres and Application for Detecting Molecules Adsorbed on Au Single Crystal Surface

By assembling polystyrene microspheres on a sample surface, the surface Raman signal could be enhanced. The dependence of the enhancement effect on the size of microspheres was systematically investigated and it was found that microspheres with a diameter of 3.00 μm showed the highest enhancement of ca 5 folds. By utilizing the enhancement effect of the microspheres, the surface Raman intensity of malachite green isothiocyanate (MGITC) adsorbed on Au(111) surface could be enhanced by 20 folds, indicating that this method could effectively improve the detection sensitivity of surface Raman spectroscopy for the adsorbed species on single crystal surface. The later signal increment corresponds to the Raman enhancement effect of nearly 3 orders of magnitude. The enhancement effect is mainly owing to the formation of nanojets when a laser is focused on the microspheres of appropriate diameter. The formation of nanojets will lead to the highly localized electromagnetic field, which will then significantly enhance the Raman process in the nanojets. The main reason for obtaining different enhancements on two types of samples was analyzed.     

Regio-selective decoration of nanocavity metal arrays: contributions from localized and delocalized plasmons to surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Spherical cap gold nanocavity arrays with internal diameters of 240, 430, 600 and 820 nm were fabricated on smooth gold films using nanosphere lithography with electrochemical metal deposition. Each array was prepared to the same normalized film thickness to diameter ratios, t(N), of 0.8 ± 0.04. Selective modification of the top surface and interior walls of the gold nanocavity arrays with [Ru(bpy)(2)(Qbpy)](2+), where bpy is 2,2'-bipyridyl and Qbpy is 2,2':4,4':4,4'-quarterpyridyl, was accomplished using a two step adsorption process exploiting the assembled polystyrene spheres as masks. This selective modification approach permitted direct quantitative comparison, for the first time, of plasmonic enhancement of Raman signal and luminescence signal from a monolayer adsorbed at the top surface versus interior walls of all-gold nanocavity arrays. For all cavity sizes, significantly greater Raman and luminescence signal enhancement was observed from [Ru(bpy)(2)(Qbpy)](2+) monolayer adsorbed at the top surface of the array compared with the cavity walls. This disparity in Raman intensity from top versus cavity interior increased as the cavity dimensions decreased. For example, the Raman signal intensity from [Ru(bpy)(2)(Qbpy)](2+) adsorbed at the top surface of 240 nm gold arrays was 170 times greater than SERS signal for this material adsorbed at the interior walls of this array, whereas the relative Raman signal enhancement was 6 from top versus interior for the 820 nm internal radius arrays under 785 nm excitation. The origin of the relatively greater signal at the top surface is discussed in the context of plasmonic distribution at each surface.     

Surface-active substrates for Raman and luminescence analysis

This paper describes the development of active materials for optically enhanced Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy. The substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering investigated in this study involved silver-coated microspheres on glass plates. The effect of various experimental parameters, such as angle of incidence and excitation wavelength, were investigated. The substrate used for surface luminescence analysis consisted of a cellulose membrane coated with fumed silica microparticles, to enhance the sensitivity of analysis. Examples of analysis of benzo[a]pyrene and its derivatives are used to illustrate the efficacy of the analytical techniques.     

3D SERS Imaging Using Chemically Synthesized Highly Symmetric Nanoporous Silver Microparticles

3D surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) imaging with highly symmetric 3D silver microparticles as a SERS substrate was developed. Although the synthesis method is purely chemical and does not involve lithography, the synthesized nanoporous silver microparticles possess a regular hexapod shape and octahedral symmetry. By using p‐aminothiophenol (PATP) as a probe molecule, the 3D enhancement patterns of the particles were shown to be very regular and predictable, resembling the particle shape and exhibiting symmetry. An application to the detection of 3D inhomogeneity in a polymer blend, which relies on the predictable enhancement pattern of the substrate, is presented. 3D SERS imaging using the substrate also provides an improvement in spatial resolution along the Z axis, which is a challenge for Raman measurement in polymers, especially layered polymeric systems.     

Frequency Shift in Graphene‐Enhanced Raman Signal of Molecules

Graphene‐enhanced Raman scattering (GERS) is emerging as an important method due to the need for highly reproducible, quantifiable, and biocompatible active substrates. As a result of its unique two‐dimensional carbon structure, graphene provides particularly large enhanced Raman signals for molecules adsorbed on its surface. In this work, the GERS signals of a test molecule, 4‐mercaptobenzoic acid (4‐MBA), with reproducible enhancement factors are discussed and compared with surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) signals from highly active substrates, covered with spherical silver nanoparticles. It is shown that chemical interactions between the molecule and graphene can result in a frequency shift in the graphene‐enhanced Raman signal of the molecule.     

Anguler-resolved raman spectroscopy of pyridine on copper and gold electrodes

The surface enhanced Raman scattering from pyridine molecules adsorbed on smooth copper or gold electrodes exhibits a similar strong enhancement as for pyridine on Ag. The intensity is very sensitive to the angle of incidence, and the signal is detectable only in a narrow angular range, when only monolayer amounts of the metals have been dissolved and redeposited electrochemically.     

非离子乳化剂细乳液聚合制备草莓型PSt/SiO2纳米复合微球

通过细乳液聚合,使用非离子乳化体系辛基酚聚氧乙烯醚(CA-897),在纳米二氧化硅水分散介质中,以1-乙烯基咪唑(1-VID)作为辅助单体制备了苯乙烯为核,纳米二氧化硅为壳的草莓型PSt/SiO2有机-无机复合微球.实验范围内得到的复合微球的平均粒径和最终SiO2含量分别介于140～180 nm和19 wt%-31wt...     

Raman scattering of 4-aminobenzenethiol sandwiched between Ag nanoparticle and macroscopically smooth Au substrate: effects of size of Ag nanoparticles and the excitation wavelength

A nanogap formed by a metal nanoparticle and a flat metal substrate is one kind of "hot site" for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Accordingly, although no Raman signal is observable when 4-aminobenzenethiol (4-ABT), for instance, is self-assembled on a flat Au substrate, a distinct spectrum is obtained when Ag or Au nanoparticles are adsorbed on the pendent amine groups of 4-ABT. This is definitely due to the electromagnetic coupling between the localized surface plasmon of Ag or Au nanoparticle with the surface plasmon polariton of the planar Au substrate, allowing an intense electric field to be induced in the gap even by visible light. To appreciate the Raman scattering enhancement and also to seek the optimal condition for SERS at the nanogap, we have thoroughly examined the size effect of Ag nanoparticles, along with the excitation wavelength dependence, by assembling 4-ABT between planar Au and a variable-size Ag nanoparticle (from 20- to 80-nm in diameter). Regarding the size dependence, a higher Raman signal was observed when larger Ag nanoparticles were attached onto 4-ABT, irrespective of the excitation wavelength. Regarding the excitation wavelength, the highest Raman signal was measured at 568 nm excitation, slightly larger than that at 632.8 nm excitation. The Raman signal measured at 514.5 and 488 nm excitation was an order of magnitude weaker than that at 568 nm excitation, in agreement with the finite-difference time domain simulation. It is noteworthy that placing an Au nanoparticle on 4-ABT, instead of an Ag nanoparticle, the enhancement at the 568 nm excitation was several tens of times weaker than that at the 632.8 nm excitation, suggesting the importance of the localized surface plasmon resonance of the Ag nanoparticles for an effective coupling with the surface plasmon polariton of the planar Au substrate to induce a very intense electric field at the nanogap.     

吡啶-氯化钾水溶液/n型硫化镉电极界面上的表面增强喇曼散射

本文研究了在吡啶-KC1水溶液中吡啶吸附在n-CdS电极上的表面增强喇曼散射(SERS)。在光照下,CdS电极经过正极化予处理数分钟,就能观察到吡啶吸附在CdS电极上的很强的SERS谱。其特征峰是1010和1036cm^-1与纯吡啶的喇曼特征峰991,1030cm^-1相比有了明显位移。又SERS谱随着吡啶浓度的增加而增强。外加电位对SERS也有一定影响,其曲线形状与CdS的I～V曲线很相似。对这些实验结果,本文用n型CdS电极的光电化学特性进行了初步的考察和讨论。     

Self-assembly of lambda-DNA networks/Ag nanoparticles: hybrid architecture and active-SERS substrate

In this article, highly rough and stable surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-active substrates had been fabricated by a facile layer-by-layer technique. Unique lambda-DNA networks and CTAB capped silver nanoparticles (AgNP) were alternatively self-assembled on the charged mica surface until a desirable number of bilayers were reached. The as-prepared hybrid architectures were characterized by UV-vis spectroscopy, tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) and confocal Raman microscopy, respectively. Linear increases of the maximum absorbance of DNA band with the number of bilayers present a common LBL assembly feature. The red-shift of surface plasmon of silver nanoparticles within the hybrid films was mainly due to the aggregation effect. With the increase of number of bilayers, the surface coverage of nanoparticles on the substrate became larger, as well as the rising of total amount of nanoparticles and the surface roughness of hybrid films. These rough metallic hybrid architectures could be utilized as SERS-active substrates. A significant enhanced Raman scattering effect of the adsorbed analytes, e.g., methylene blue (MB), on these hybrid films was easily exploited by the confocal Raman microscopy. The enhancement factor depended on the surface coverage of nanoparticles and number of bilayers of lambda-DNA/AgNP.