Issue 50, 2015

Fabrication of intelligent poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/silver nanoparticle composite films with dynamic surface-enhanced Raman scattering effect

Abstract

An intelligent PNIPAAm/AgNP composite film was fabricated by the simple assembly of silver nanoparticles on the surface of photo-polymerized PNIPAAm film via electrostatic interaction. Surface enhanced Raman scattering study and finite-difference time-domain simulation demonstrated that the local electric field intensity and the SERS intensity of this resultant composite film can be easily tuned by changing the interparticle distance triggered by temperature or solvent variations. The composite film showed a high stability in a polar organic solvent and concentrated saline solution. The smart composite film might find applications as a SERS sensor for temperature/solvent variation detection as well as a versatile SERS substrate for the detection of analyte in sea water and organic solvent.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of intelligent poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/silver nanoparticle composite films with dynamic surface-enhanced Raman scattering effect

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 mar 2015
Accepted
28 apr 2015
First published
28 apr 2015

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 40437-40443

Fabrication of intelligent poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/silver nanoparticle composite films with dynamic surface-enhanced Raman scattering effect

L. Wang, X. Zhao, Y. Zhang, W. Zhang, T. Ren, Z. Chen, F. Wang and H. Yang, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 40437 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA04361A

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