RSC Advances
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2017
·Vol. 7
·期 41
·25746-25752
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IF 3.108
Li Xu,Qin Xu,Xiaoyu Guo,Ye Ying,Yiping Wu,Ying Wen,Haifeng Yang
Alumina is widely recognized as chemically inert, and resistant to oxidation and high temperature. In this study, Au/Al2O3 nanocomposites (NCs) were prepared by a facile method and were used as a surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate for detection of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). This Au/Al2O3-based SERS substrate demonstrated good sensitivity with the lowest detectable concentration of 5 × 10−9 M for ATP and a good linear relationship ranging from 5 × 10−5 to 5 × 10−9 M. The strategy of improvement of SERS detection sensitivity for ATP was based on the consideration of ATP captured by such SERS substrate via chelation of aluminum and phosphates, which was validated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. In addition, alumina as a supporting material could be expected to prolong the stability of such a SERS substrate.
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MOLECULES
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2024
·Vol. 29
·期 10
·2383
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IF 4.2
Zhi Yang,Lu Yang,Yucun Liu,Lei Chen
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a promising technique for sensitive detection. The design and optimization of plasma-enhanced structures for SERS applications is an interesting challenge. In this study, we found that the SERS activity of MXene (Ti3C2Tx) can be improved by adding Au nanoparticles (NPs) in a simple photoreduction process. Fluoride-salt-etched MXene was deposited by drop-casting on a glass slide, and Au NPs were formed by the photocatalytic growth of gold(III) chloride trihydrate solutions under ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. The Au–MXene substrate formed by Au NPs anchored on the Ti3C2Txsheet produced significant SERS through the synergistic effect of chemical and electromagnetic mechanisms. The structure and size of the Au-decorated MXene depended on the reaction time. When the MXene films were irradiated with a large number of UV photons, the size of the Au NPs increased. Hot spots were formed in the nanoscale gaps between the Au NPs, and the abundant surface functional groups of the MXene effectively adsorbed and interacted with the probe molecules. Simultaneously, as a SERS substrate, the proposed Au–MXene composite exhibited a wider linear range of 10−4–10−9mol/L for detecting carbendazim. In addition, the enhancement factor of the optimized SERS substrate Au–MXene was 1.39 × 106, and its relative standard deviation was less than 13%. This study provides a new concept for extending experimental strategies to further improve the performance of SERS.
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LANGMUIR
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2024
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Xu Chuan Cao,Bai Chao Zhang,Jing Cui,Chao Suo,Xiao Chuan Duan,Shao Hui Guo,Xian-Ming Zhang
Plasmonic materials are fundamental photosensitizer materials for photocatalytic reactions. Various structures, including core–shell types, satellite types, and distribution types, have been designed and prepared for the optimization of photocatalytic reactions. However, understanding the profound enhancement mechanism of various structures is still challenging. Thus, the plasmonic coverage is considered to be an index for analyzing the influence mechanism. Here, Au@Ni-MOF core–shell flower sphere-like photocatalysts are prepared, and the size of the flower sphere can be precisely regulated by varying the amount of Au. Thus, different plasmonic coverages are realized through the tuning of spheres of different sizes. The high plasmonic coverage of catalysts can enhance visible light absorption, facilitate the generation of photogenerated electron–hole pairs, and shorten the photogenerated carrier transport distance. Moreover, the exponential relationship between the photocatalytic hydrogen production performance and the plasmonic coverage can also be used as a guide for material design. As a result, a photocatalytic hydrogen production rate of 3389 μmol·g–1·h–1 is achieved in the Au@Ni-MOF sample with high plasmonic coverage, which will advance the plasmonic application in photocatalytic reactions.
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OPTICS EXPRESS
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2024
·Vol. 32
·期 25
·44103-44114
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Jianxia Qi,Yuchong Ren,Kangzhe Zhao,Xinyue Li,Wanxuan Chang,Chengyun Zhang,Qingyan Han,Wei Gao,Yongkai Wang,Jun Dong
Plasmonic dimers have a very wide range of applications as a unique platform for studying the fundamental effects of plasmonics. Most dimer structures are prepared by chemical methods and direct-writing methods, such as coupling agents and lithography. These methods are often complex and expensive. Here, we prepared Au nanospheres (AuNSs) by layer-by-layer (LBL) deposition, used polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as a spacer layer, and then annealed the deposited AuNSs to orient the assembly and integrate them together. In this paper, suitable PMMA spin coating conditions and optimal annealing temperatures were explored, and large-scale AuNSs-PMMA-AuNSs(NSs-P-NSs) composed of vertical Au nanosphere dimers were prepared successfully. The detection limits of this substrate can reach 4 × 10−12 M/L and 4 × 10−10 M/L for Rhodamine 6 G (R6G) and Crystal Violet (CV), respectively, demonstrating excellent Raman activity. In addition, the sensitivity of detecting aspartame (APM) is 0.015625 g/L. This method is not only simple to operate but also allows the preparation of a large-scale uniform substrate with excellent detection capabilities.
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Materials Research Express
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2024
·Vol. 11
·期 10
·105003
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Y Zhang,W H Fang,Y J Zhai,J H Li
Glucose concentration is considered an indicator for the diagnosis of diabetes, highlighting the importance of accurate glucose detection. Non-enzymatic electrochemical sensors have been extensively studied for glucose detection applications, with nanocomposites composed of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) demonstrating high catalytic activity. In this study, a nanocomposite material composed of MoS2 and Au NPs (MoS2/Au) was synthesized and employed to construct a non-enzymatic electrochemical glucose biosensor. The detection limit of this sensor was explored, reaching as low as 1 mM. Additionally, compared to MoS2, the MoS2/Au nanocomposite exhibited a higher linear correlation coefficient and sensitivity, with a linear range of 1–25 mM and a sensitivity of 417.556 μA mM−1 cm−2. The sensor demonstrated excellent performance within the range of human blood glucose concentrations, showing potential for real-time monitoring and precise measurement of glucose levels. Furthermore, it exhibited good stability and reproducibility. These findings indicate the potential applications of MoS2/Au in biosensors and immunoassays.
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LAB ON A CHIP
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2024
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Ziran Ye,Ping Lu,Yiben Chen,Zhixian Xu,Haixia Huang,Mingjia Zhi,Zi Ang Chen,Bo Yan
We present an efficient approach for the consecutive synthesis of Au–TiO2 nanocomposites with controlled morphologies in a microfluidic chip. The seed-mediated growth method was employed to synthesize Au nanorods as the core, and TiO2 layers of varying thicknesses were deposited on the surface or tip of the Au nanorods. Au–TiO2 nanocomposites with core–shell, dumbbell, and dandelion-like structures can be precisely synthesized in a one-step manner within the microfluidic chip by finely tuning the flow rate of NaHCO3 and the amount of hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide. Furthermore, we have investigated the photocatalytic activity of the synthesized nanocomposites, and it was found that Au NR–TiO2 core–shell nanostructure with a thin TiO2 shell exhibits superior catalytic performance. This work provides an effective and controlled method for the microscale preparation and photocatalytic application of various Au–TiO2 nanocomposite structures.
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SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
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2025
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Duo Zhao,Shiyu Jiang,Junao Zhang,Fengguo Zhu,Yue Wang,Ying Guo,Siyu Qian
In heterogeneous photocatalytic reactions, understanding the catalytic processes and its kinetics is crucial for catalyst design and performance evaluation. However, real-time monitoring the interface reaction such as pollutant degradation remains a challenge. In this study, the implantable optical fiber sensors with real-time catalytic monitoring capability were created by modifying the sensing surface with Au/TiO 2 heterojunction photocatalysts. As pollutants adsorb and degrade on the catalytic interface, surface refractive index changes occur. The evanescent field on the sensing surface covers the photocatalytic layer, enabling in situ and real-time monitoring of surface refractive index changes for catalytic reaction analysis. The flexible fiber-optic Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensors can be directly immersed in a pollutant solution Rhodamine 6 G (R6G) to monitor its degradation rate and kinetic processes. It reveals that the optimal size of Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) can facilitate efficient electron transfer at heterojunction catalysts. The time-resolved resonance wavelength shift further elucidates the degradation kinetics of photocatalysts with varying Au/TiO 2 composition. The fiber-optic sensor demonstrated comparable accuracy to conventional UV-Vis spectrophotometry in assessing TiO 2 photocatalytic degradation (84.13 % vs. 81.25 % efficiency, respectively), with a relative deviation less than 5 %. However, unlike the discrete data collected by traditional UV-Vis methods, the miniaturized and implantable fiber-optic SPR sensor can collect data every 0.25 s. It demonstrates real-time monitoring capability and enables more accurate evaluation of dynamic reaction processes. This in situ sensing strategy provides new insights into photocatalytic mechanisms and shows great potential for guiding catalyst design and optimization.
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MICROCHIMICA ACTA
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2025
·Vol. 192
·期 6
·1-11
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Cheng Yuliang,Zhao Yajie,Li Peizhen,Yu Hang,Xie Yunfei,Guo Yahui,Yao Weirong,Qian He
As one of the most extensively used antibiotics in aquaculture in China, enrofloxacin (ENR) tends to accumulate in human body and endanger people’s health. Rapid, sensitive, and facile assays for enrofloxacin are urgently needed. In this study, based on the solid-phase substrate preparation strategy combined with microsphere etching and magnetron sputtering, Ag@Au nanoparticle (Ag@Au NP) solid array (Ag@Au NSA) with high surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) enhancement factor (EF≈8.3 × 10 7 ) was developed. Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations revealed that the Ag@Au NSA achieved maximum electromagnetic enhancement (EM) under the following optimized conditions: 633 nm excitation wavelength, 7.9 nm Au shell thickness, and 30.5 nm Ag core size. Additionally, SERS mapping results confirmed both the excellent enhancement performance and signal reproducibility of Ag@Au NSA, due to the expected micro-region enhancement with long-term effects accompanied by a larger range of high-density “hot spots.” The proposed SERS sensing for ENR based on Ag@Au NSA had a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.076 ng/mL ( R 2 ≈ 0. 9991) and was further applied to real-sample detection of ENR in crayfish tail meat with good recoveries ranging from 91.36 to 112.60%, indicating its great potential in practice. Graphical
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Microstructures
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2025
·Vol. 5
·期 3
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Kaiwen Tian,Yukang Fu,Inzimamul Haq,Shuangyang Kuang,Gaojie Xiong,Zeyuan Zhao,Tianyu Zhou,Jun Weng,Xiang Peng,Liwei Xiong
Aim: Zinc oxide (ZnO) is an n-type semiconductor with a wide bandgap, excellent electron mobility, and stable chemical characteristics, making it potentially applicable in the field of gas sensing. However, conventional ZnO-based gas sensors face challenges such as high operating temperatures and low sensitivity.Methods: In this paper, we first synthesized ZIF-8 with a rhombic dodecahedron structure using a room-temperature chemical precipitation method. By doping ZIF-8 with cobalt (Co) and exchanging gold ions, followed by calcination in air, we obtained a metal-organic framework (MOF) derived porous Au@Co-ZnO nanostructure.Results: This nanostructure retained the large specific surface area and porous characteristics of ZIF-8, while its gas sensing performance was significantly enhanced compared to the pure MOF-derived ZnO nanostructure, due to Co doping and gold nanoparticle modification. At an ethanol concentration of 100 ppm, the Au@Co-ZnO sample demonstrated its best performance at 140 °C, with a response value of 205.3. This result was 28.9 times higher compared to the pure ZnO sample, which showed a response value of 7.1 under identical conditions. Additionally, the optimal operating temperature was 40 °C lower than that of the pure ZnO sample (180 °C). Furthermore, the Au@Co-ZnO samples demonstrated good stability and selectivity for ethanol gas.Conclusion: The proposed MOF-derived porous Au@Co-ZnO nanostructures not only advance the application of MOF-derived materials in gas detection but also offer a novel approach for boosting the gas-sensing performance of other metal oxide materials.
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Nanoscale
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2022
·Vol. 14
·期 47
·17550-17560
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Yunpeng Lin,Jinyong Hu,Wenbo Zhang,Li Jiang,Deqi Yi,Thitima Rujiralai,Jie Ma
Dimer optical antennas (OAs) enable great fluorescence enhancement and excitation volume reduction and hence potentially can be a very useful tool for single-molecule detection. The realization of broadband fluorescence enhancement with a dimer OA remains an essential step for its usage in multi-color single-molecule fluorescence (SMF) detection. Although silver dimer OAs have been shown to be able to yield broadband fluorescence enhancement over the visible spectrum, they are amenable to oxidization, hard to functionalize, and could cause cytotoxicity. To overcome these limitations, in this work, we took advantage of nano-sized silver due to its optical properties and gold due to its chemical properties and developed an ameliorated Ag@Au dimer OA in terms of its overall performance. The Ag@Au nanoparticle in the dimer OA contains a 70 nm silver core and an ultra-thin (∼1–5 nm) gold shell which play a key role in its optical responses. Furthermore, we employed three typical dyes, i.e., FAM, TAMRA and Cy5, representing the blue, yellow and red ranges, respectively, and characterized their single-molecule fluorescence enhancements in the presence of Au or Ag@Au OAs. Our results indicate that, in contrast to its Au counterpart, the Ag@Au dimer OA prepared here can greatly improve its optical response in the blue range and eventually achieve broadband fluorescence enhancement throughout almost the whole visible spectral range. Meanwhile, it also maintains good chemical stability and accessibility to functionalization. Such Ag@Au dimer OAs are thus expected to have many important applications in the future, including single-molecule sequencing and multi-color biosensing.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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Chang Xia,Wei He,Xiao Feng Yang,Peng Fei Gao,Shu Jun Zhen,Yuan Fang Li,Cheng Zhi Huang
Plasmon-driven catalysis of metal nanostructures has garnered wide interest. Here, a photogenerated plasmonic hot-electron painting strategy was reported to form Au@Pt composite nanoparticles (Au@Pt NPs) with high catalytic reactivity without using reducing agents. Au nanoparticles, including Au nanospheres (Au NSs), Au nanorods (Au NRs), and Au nanobipyramids (Au NBPs), generated hot electrons under localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) excitation, which made the platinum precursor reduced as a consequence that Pt(0) atoms were painted on the surface of Au NPs to form an asymmetric Pt shell outside the plasmonic Au core. Compared with bare Au NPs, Au@Pt NPs exhibited significantly enhanced electrocatalytic activity toward reduction of H2O2 due to the bimetallic synergistic effect and great dispersion of Au@Pt NP-modified indium tin oxide (Au@Pt NPs/ITO). It exhibited a linear detection of H2O2 in a wide concentration range from 0.5 to 1000 μM with a low detection limit of 0.11 μM (S/N = 3). Therefore, the plasmonic hot-electron-painted Au@Pt NPs represent a novel and simple method for the design of advanced noble asymmetric metal nanomaterials.
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JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
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2016
·Vol. 18
·期 9
·1-10
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Zhong Benbin,Zu Xihong,Yi Guobin,Huang Hailiang,Zhang Minghai,Luo Hongsheng
In this paper, well-ordered Au nanoparticle arrays on silicon substrates were employed as efficient metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) substrates for investigating the fluorescence properties of the conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). The ordered Au nanoparticle arrays were fabricated by block copolymer self-assembly technology, and the particle sizes were controlled by adjusting the molar ratios of HAuCl 4 precursor to vinyl pyridine units. The approach is economical and suitable to fabricate large-area MEF substrates. The results about fluorescence properties of P3HT showed that the fluorescence intensities of the P3HT films were improved on ordered Au nanoparticle arrays compared to those on bare silicon substrate and were significantly enhanced with the Au nanoparticle sizes increasing. The mechanism is based on localized surface plasmon resonances, coupling and propagating surface plasmons, and the emission enhancement mainly resulted from the increase of the excitation rate. This work provides a new way to prepare efficient MEF substrates for high-performance fluorescence-based devices.
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