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Sweedan AO, Pavan MJ, Schatz E, Maaß H, Tsega A, Tzin V, Höflich K, Mörk P, Feichtner T, Bashouti MY. Evolutionary Optimized, Monocrystalline Gold Double Wire Gratings as a Novel SERS Sensing Platform. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2311937. [PMID: 38529743 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202311937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2023] [Revised: 02/29/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
Abstract
Achieving reliable and quantifiable performance in large-area surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates poses a formidable challenge, demanding signal enhancement while ensuring response uniformity and reproducibility. Conventional SERS substrates often made of inhomogeneous materials with random resonator geometries, resulting in multiple or broadened plasmonic resonances, undesired absorptive losses, and uneven field enhancement. These limitations hamper reproducibility, making it difficult to conduct comparative studies with high sensitivity. This study introduces an innovative approach that addresses these challenges by utilizing monocrystalline gold flakes to fabricate well-defined plasmonic double-wire resonators through focused ion-beam lithography. Inspired by biological strategy, the double-wire grating substrate (DWGS) geometry is evolutionarily optimized to maximize the SERS signal by enhancing both excitation and emission processes. The use of monocrystalline material minimizes absorption losses and ensures shape fidelity during nanofabrication. DWGS demonstrates notable reproducibility (RSD = 6.6%), repeatability (RSD = 5.6%), and large-area homogeneity > 104 µm2. It provides a SERS enhancement for sub-monolayer coverage detection of 4-Aminothiophenol analyte. Furthermore, DWGS demonstrates reusability, long-term stability on the shelf, and sustained analyte signal stability over time. Validation with diverse analytes, across different states of matter, including biological macromolecules, confirms the sensitive and reproducible nature of DWGSs, thereby establishing them as a promising platform for future sensing applications.
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- Amro O Sweedan
- The Ilse-Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba Campus, POB 653, Building 51, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel
- Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshset Ben-Gurion, Building 26, Be'er Sheva, 8499000, Israel
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- The Ilse-Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba Campus, POB 653, Building 51, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel
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- NanoStruct GmbH, Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 15, 97076, Würzburg, Germany
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- NanoStruct GmbH, Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 15, 97076, Würzburg, Germany
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Be'er Sheva, 8499000, Israel
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- French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Be'er Sheva, 8499000, Israel
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- Joint Lab Photonic Quantum Technologies, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Str. 4, D-12489, Berlin, Germany
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- Nano-Optics and Biophotonics Group, Experimental Physics 5, Institute of Physics, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074, Wurzburg, Germany
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- Nano-Optics and Biophotonics Group, Experimental Physics 5, Institute of Physics, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074, Wurzburg, Germany
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- The Ilse-Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheba Campus, POB 653, Building 51, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel
- Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, J. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshset Ben-Gurion, Building 26, Be'er Sheva, 8499000, Israel
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Li YS, Church JS. Raman spectroscopy in the analysis of food and pharmaceutical nanomaterials. J Food Drug Anal 2014; 22:29-48. [PMID: 24673902 PMCID: PMC9359147 DOI: 10.1016/j.jfda.2014.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2013] [Accepted: 11/21/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Raman scattering is an inelastic phenomenon. Although its cross section is very small, recent advances in electronics, lasers, optics, and nanotechnology have made Raman spectroscopy suitable in many areas of application. The present article reviews the applications of Raman spectroscopy in food and drug analysis and inspection, including those associated with nanomaterials. Brief overviews of basic Raman scattering theory, instrumentation, and statistical data analysis are also given. With the advent of Raman enhancement mechanisms and the progress being made in metal nanomaterials and nanoscale metal surfaces fabrications, surface enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy has become an extra sensitive method, which is applicable not only for analysis of foods and drugs, but also for intracellular and intercellular imaging. A Raman spectrometer coupled with a fiber optics probe has great potential in applications such as monitoring and quality control in industrial food processing, food safety in agricultural plant production, and convenient inspection of pharmaceutical products, even through different types of packing. A challenge for the routine application of surface enhanced Raman scattering for quantitative analysis is reproducibility. Success in this area can be approached with each or a combination of the following methods: (1) fabrication of nanostructurally regular and uniform substrates; (2) application of statistic data analysis; and (3) isotopic dilution.
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Kahraman M, Yazici MM, Sahin F, Culha M. Convective assembly of bacteria for surface-enhanced Raman scattering. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2008; 24:894-901. [PMID: 18179261 DOI: 10.1021/la702240q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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A sample preparation method based on convective assembly for "whole-microorganism" identification using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is developed. With this technique, a uniform sample can easily be prepared with silver nanoparticles. During the deposition process, bacteria and nanoparticles are assembled to form a unique well-ordered structure with great reproducibility. The SERS spectra acquired from the samples prepared with this technique have better quality and improved reproducibility for SERS spectra obtained from the same sample and limited variation due to the consistent sample preparation. E. coli, a Gram-negative bacilli, and Staphylococcus cohnii, a Gram-positive coccus, are studied as model bacteria.
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- Mehmet Kahraman
- Yeditepe University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Genetics and Bioengineering Department, Kayisdagi, Istanbul, Turkey
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Han MJ, Lee GH, Cho TJ, Park SK, Kim JH, Chang JY. Synthesis of Nucleic Acid Analogues by Alternating Cyclocopolymerization. Macromolecules 1997. [DOI: 10.1021/ma961053x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Man Jung Han
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Ajou University, Suwon 442-749, Republic of Korea
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Adsorption of nucleic acids at a silver electrode polarized to -0.6 to -0.1 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) was investigated by means of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy. Single-stranded polyriboadenylic acid and thermally denaturated DNA adsorbed at the silver electrode yield two intense bands at 734 and 1335 cm-1 on the SERS spectra. These bands, assigned to the vibrations of adenine residue rings, were much less intense if the SERS spectra were recorded for double-helical complex polyadenylic X polyuridylic acid and native DNA. Moreover, the courses of alkaline denaturation of DNA and its digestion by deoxyribonuclease I were observed by SERS spectroscopy. The results were interpreted as support for the view that intact double-helical segments of nucleic acids are not denatured or destabilized due to their adsorption at the positively charged and roughened surface.
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Séquaris JM, Koglin E, Malfoy B. Inner and outer complexes of Pt-coordination compounds with DNA probed by SERS spectroscopy. FEBS Lett 1984; 173:95-8. [PMID: 6540207 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(84)81024-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy has been used to study the interfacial behaviour of DNA modified by cis-Pt(NH3)2Cl2, (cis-DDP) and [Pt-(dien)Cl]Cl bidentate and monodentate platinum coordination compounds, respectively. Two stereochemical configurations of Pt-DNA complexes can be deduced from the adsorption behaviour of the Pt adducts. The antitumoral inactive [Pt-(dien)Cl] Cl forms an outer complex whereas the antitumoral active cis-DDP favours an inner complex.
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