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Published on: November 23, 2016
Highly sensitive AuNSs@AgNR SERS substrates for rapid determination of aromatic amines
Qian Zhang1, Zhenglin Liu1, Hengchang Zhang1
1Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Lasser Materials and Devices, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China. dpthcq@jsnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
The leakage of aromatic amines will pose a great threat to human health and the ecological environment. Therefore, there is an urgent need to achieve rapid and high-sensitivity detection of such substances. In this study, a simple surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) method based on gold nanostars-modified silver nanorods (AuNSs@AgNRs) was established for the detection of benzidine and 4-aminobiphenyl (4-ABP). The enhancement factors of the substrate towards rhodamine 6G (R6G) and crystal violet (CV) were 4.67 × 108 and 1.11 × 108, respectively. Combined with density functional theory (DFT), the AuNSs@AgNR substrate achieved the rapid detection of benzidine and 4-ABP and obtained low detection limits (LODbenzidine = 7.09 × 10-9 M; LOD4-ABP = 1.20 × 10-9 M). Furthermore, the AuNSs@AgNR substrate can realize the high-sensitivity detection of benzidine and 4-ABP in the spiked river water samples within 3 min, which means that the AuNSs@AgNR-based SERS method can be used as a portable platform to realize the on-site rapid detection of environmental pollutants.
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