Baolong Huo,Man Du,Ao Shen,Mengwen Li,Yaru Lai,Xue Bai,Aijun Gong,Leqiu Fang,Yunxu Yang
A highly selective and sensitive fluorescence “light-up” probe PTH for ClO − has been developed, which is designed by a new strategy based on TEMPO-oxidation for the first time. PTH exhibits excellent properties including quick response (within 2 min), lower detection limit (63.7 nM), good linearity ( R 2 = 0.9863) and specific selectivity. More importantly, its application of detection ClO- in real samples has also been achieved.
In this paper, Au@Ag nanopencil is designed as a multimodality plasmonic nanoprobe based on asymmetric etching for the detection of SCN − and ClO − . Au@Ag nanopencil with Au tip and Au@Ag rod is prepared by asymmetric tailoring of uniformly grown silver-covered gold nanopyramids under the combined effect of partial galvanic replacement and redox reaction. By asymmetric etching in different systems, Au@Ag nanopencil exhibits diversified changes in the plasmonic absorption band: O 2 •− facilitated by SCN − etches Au@Ag rod from the end to the tip, causing a blue shift of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) peak as the aspect ratio decreases; while the ClO − can retain Au@Ag shell and etch Ag within rod from the tip to the end, causing a redshift of the LSPR peak as the coupling resonance weakens. Based on peak shifts in different directions, a multimodality detection of SCN − and ClO − has been established. The results demonstrate the detection limits of SCN − and ClO − are 160 and 6.7 n m , and the linear ranges are 1–600 µ m and 0.05–13 µ m , respectively. The finely designed Au@Ag nanopencil not only broadens the horizon of designing heterogeneous structures, but also enriches the strategy of constructing multimodality sensing platform.