Nan Yang,Ting-Ting You,Yu-Kun Gao,Chen-Meng Zhang,Peng-Gang Yin
Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been widely used in detection of food safety due to the nondestructive examination property. Here, we reported a flexible SERS film based on a polymer-immobilized gold nanorod polymer metafilm. Polystyrene–polyisoprene–polystyrene (SIS), a transparent and flexible, along with having excellent elasticity, polymer, was chosen as the main support of gold nanorods. A simple phase transfer progress was adopted to mix the gold nanorods with the polymer, which can further be used in most water-insoluble polymers. The SERS film performed satisfactorily while being tested in a series of standard Raman probes, like crystal violet (CV) and malachite green (MG). Moreover, the excellent reproducibility and elastic properties make the film a promising substrate in practical detection. Hence, the MG detection on the fish surface and trace thiram detection on orange pericarp were inspected with detection results of 1 × 10–10 and 1 × 10–6 M, which were below the demand of the National standard of China, exactly matching the realistic application requirements.
Jiaxue Zhang,Qianying Lu,Yanyan Li,Tingyu Li,Ming-Hui Lu,Yan-Feng Chen,Desheng Kong
Stretchable optoelectronics represent an emerging technology featuring soft mechanical properties. The advancements in this active area rely on the development of compliant electronic materials. Currently, the deformable forms of light-emitting devices often exhibit double-side emissions due to the lack of stretchable reflective electrodes. This study reports a facile procedure to deposit smooth and uniform liquid metal films over large-area elastomeric substrates as stretchable reflective electrodes. The as-prepared electrodes exhibit low sheet resistance (0.15 Ω sq–1), high optical reflectance (95% at 550 nm), and ultrahigh deformability (500% strain). The electrode shows sufficient durability to survive repetitive tensile deformations. Successful implementation of a liquid metal electrode in a stretchable light-emitting device achieves single-side emission with enhanced light extraction. The stretchable reflective electrode reported here represents a key building component to enable a broad range of applications such as deformable lighting, wearable displays, and soft robotics.