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Poonam Bhadoria1, Arti Saroj1, Venkatnarayan Ramanathan1
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, 221005, India. vraman.chy@iitbhu.ac.in.
Abstract:
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of p-aminothiophenol (PATP) was investigated on β-Bi2O3/Bi2O2CO3 nanoparticles, a novel bismuth based metal substrate with the lowest limit of detection of 1 mM. Unlike on noble metal surfaces where PATP gets converted to p,p'-dimercaptoazobenzene (DMAB) due to photocatalytic coupling, no such transformation of PATP was observed on β-Bi2O3/Bi2O2CO3 nanoparticles. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the PW91PW91/LANL2DZ/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory supported the experimental results exceedingly well. Also, the charge transfer direction from PATP to β-Bi2O3/Bi2O2CO3 nanoparticles was revealed by the projected density of states calculation.
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