Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (10): 2308.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20120001

• Physical Chemistry • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Construction of Composite Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Substrates by Silver Nanoparticle Assembly

GUO Hong-Yun1, XU Shu-Ping1, TANG Bin1, TAO Jin-Long1, PAN Ling-Yun2, XU Wei-Qing1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China;
    2. College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
  • Received:2012-01-04 Online:2012-10-10 Published:2012-09-12

Abstract:

Metal-molecule-metal sandwich structures on quartz slides were constructed by the self-assembly of Ag nanoparticles with various shapes via p-aminothiophenol (PATP) molecules as linkers. These sandwich structures were characterized by extinction spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy using different excitation lasers. The results demonstrated that SERS intensities of PATP in sandwich structures were much stronger than those on silver nanoparticle monolayers. The calculated enhancement factors (EFs) of PATP on the composite SERS substrates showed that the large EFs appeared when the SPR peaks of SERS substrates well matched excitation lines. In these sandwich structures, PATP molecules tended to form a new surface species (p,p'-dimercaptoazobenzene, DMAB) under a laser-induced catalytic coupling reaction. In addition, the laser-induced catalytic coupling reaction was closely related to excitation wavelengths.

Key words: Silver nanoparticles, Electromagnetic field enhancement, Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

CLC Number: 

TrendMD: