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Ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection of urea by highly ordered Au/Cu hybrid nanostructure
Kun Chen1, Xinyi Zhang, Douglas R MacFarlane
1School of Chemistry, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia. douglas.macfarlane@monash.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 30, 2017
Abstract:
We report a simple approach to fabricate cost-effective and highly sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates based on Au/Cu hybrid nanostructure arrays for the detection of urea, an important molecule in biological and medical fields. By effectively adjusting the gap size between neighbouring nanorods into the sub-10 nm regime, a high density of hot-spots was generated, enabling the substrates to detect urea signals at a concentration as low as 1 mM with great reproducibility.
