Polyoxovanadate Fabricated Gold Nanoparticles: Application in SERS
Department
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2017
Abstract
This article reports a surface modification of gold nanoparticles with water soluble polyoxometalate, V10O286− (decavanadate, V10). Two sizes of citrate-capped gold nanoparticles AuNP-Citrate-S (∼11 nm) and AuNP-Citrate-L (∼46 nm) were modified with V10 in aqueous media to form AuNP-V10-S and AuNP-V10-L, respectively. Both AuNP-V10-S and AuNP-V10-L were found to be significantly better than their citrate counterparts in strengthening Raman vibrational signals of analyte molecule. All the nanoparticles were characterized by UV–visible and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopies, dynamic light scattering (DLS), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) line analysis. We demonstrate that AuNP-V10-L is excellent surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate for a Raman-active analyte molecule at nanomolar concentrations.
Journal Title
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Journal ISSN
0021-9797
Volume
487
First Page
209
Last Page
216
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1016/j.jcis.2016.10.036