Issue 44, 2015

Hydrogenated black TiO2 nanowires decorated with Ag nanoparticles as sensitive and reusable surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates

Abstract

Recently, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been the subject of great interest because of its ultrasensitive, rapid and nondestructive analysis, detection, and imaging. Highly sensitive, stable and recyclable substrates are of great importance in fulfilling the practical potential of the technique in various fields, such as trace analysis, diagnosis and criminal investigation. In this work, we introduce wafer-scale Ag-modified hydrogenated black TiO2 nanowires as active SERS substrate by hydrogenation. The Ag/H–TiO2 NWs substrates deliver a relative enhancement factor of up to ∼102 compared with the substrate before hydrogenation and a detection limitation improved by at least three orders of magnitude compared with R6G detection. Moreover, hydrogenated TiO2/Ag also exhibits outstanding stability, and is recyclable by self-cleaning under UV irradiation. The excellent SERS performance is ascribed to the abundant surface electronic states induced by the hydrogenated amorphous layers and trivalent titanium, and more photogenerated charge carriers may contribute to the chemical and electromagnetic enhancement. The relative standard deviation (RSD) value for Raman signals less than 0.15 confirms the reproducibility of the hydrogenated composite SERS substrate. Therefore, the hybrid SERS substrates have great advantages in self-cleaning, reproducibility and stability, making them promising candidates for sensitive and recyclable SERS detection.

Graphical abstract: Hydrogenated black TiO2 nanowires decorated with Ag nanoparticles as sensitive and reusable surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 мар 2015
Accepted
30 мар 2015
First published
30 мар 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 34737-34743

Hydrogenated black TiO2 nanowires decorated with Ag nanoparticles as sensitive and reusable surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates

Y. Shan, Y. Yang, Y. Cao, H. Yin, N. V. Long and Z. Huang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 34737 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA04352B

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