Application of gold nanoparticles–epoxy surface nanocomposites for controlling hotspot density on a large surface area for SERS applications

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2021-10-01
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The applicability of a novel gold–epoxysurface nanocomposite for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is investigated. The nanocomposite consists of ellipsoidal nanoparticles in a hexagonal arrangement, where the average particle diameter (D0) and interparticle gap (D) can be controlled in the 0.15–1.00 (D/D0) range on a large surface area (several cm 2). Numerical simulations were used to estimate the SERS enhancement factors of substrates with five different particle arrangements. The fabricated substrates’ surface was functionalized with 20 base-pair long double-stranded DNA molecules and the intensities of the characteristic Raman peaks related to DNA were used to quantify the substrate performance. It was proved that by optimizing the fabrication parameters and maximizing the interparticle coupling, the characteristic Raman intensities could be increased by more than 2.5 orders of magnitude.
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Nano-Structures and Nano-Objects. 2021, vol. 28, issue 1, p. 1-8.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352507X21000652
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