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Kondo T, Inagaki M, Tanaka S, Tsukiji S, Motobayashi K, Ikeda K. Revisit of the plasmon-mediated chemical transformation of para-aminothiophenol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:14618-14626. [PMID: 37191289 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00924f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
Abstract
Fingerprint Raman features of para-aminothiophenol (pATP) in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra have been widely used to measure plasmon-driven catalytic activities because the appearance of characteristic spectral features is purported to be due to plasmon-induced chemical transformation of pATP to trans-p,p'-dimercaptoazobenzene (trans-DMAB). Here, we present a thorough comparison of SERS spectra for pATP and trans-DMAB in the extended range of frequencies covering group vibrations, skeletal vibrations, and external vibrations under various conditions. Although the fingerprint vibration modes of pATP could be almost mistaken with those of trans-DMAB, the low-frequency vibrations revealed distinct differences between pATP and DMAB. Photo-induced spectral changes of pATP in the fingerprint region were explained well by photo-thermal variation of the Au-S bond configuration, which affects the degree of the metal-to-molecule charge transfer resonance. This finding indicates that a large number of reports in the field of plasmon-mediated photochemistry must be reconsidered.
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- Toshiki Kondo
- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
- Department of Nanopharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
- Frontier Research Institute for Materials Science (FRIMS), Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan
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MATSUI M, ORIKASA Y, UCHIYAMA T, NISHI N, MIYAHARA Y, OTOYAMA M, TSUDA T. Electrochemical In Situ/<i>operando</i> Spectroscopy and Microscopy Part 1: Fundamentals. ELECTROCHEMISTRY 2022. [DOI: 10.5796/electrochemistry.22-66093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Ritsumeikan University
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- Department of Interdisciplinary Environment, Kyoto University
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- Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Kyoto University
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- Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Kyoto University
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- Research Institute of Electrochemical Energy, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
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Diehn S, Schlaad H, Kneipp J. Multivariate Imaging for Fast Evaluation of In Situ Dark Field Microscopy Hyperspectral Data. Molecules 2022; 27:molecules27165146. [PMID: 36014387 PMCID: PMC9413337 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27165146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Dark field scattering microscopy can create large hyperspectral data sets that contain a wealth of information on the properties and the molecular environment of noble metal nanoparticles. For a quick screening of samples of microscopic dimensions that contain many different types of plasmonic nanostructures, we propose a multivariate analysis of data sets of thousands to several hundreds of thousands of scattering spectra. By using non-negative matrix factorization for decomposing the spectra, components are identified that represent individual plasmon resonances and relative contributions of these resonances to particular microscopic focal volumes in the mapping data sets. Using data from silver and gold nanoparticles in the presence of different molecules, including gold nanoparticle-protein agglomerates or silver nanoparticles forming aggregates in the presence of acrylamide, plasmonic properties are observed that differ from those of the original nanoparticles. For the case of acrylamide, we show that the plasmon resonances of the silver nanoparticles are ideally suited to support surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and the two-photon excited process of surface enhanced hyper Raman scattering (SEHRS). Both vibrational tools give complementary information on the in situ formed polyacrylamide and the molecular composition at the nanoparticle surface.
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- Sabrina Diehn
- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +49-30-2093-82632
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Dusa A, Madzharova F, Kneipp J. Excitation Conditions for Surface-Enhanced Hyper Raman Scattering With Biocompatible Gold Nanosubstrates. Front Chem 2021; 9:680905. [PMID: 34079791 PMCID: PMC8165379 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2021.680905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Accepted: 05/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Surface enhanced hyper Raman scattering (SEHRS) can provide many advantages to probing of biological samples due to unique surface sensitivity and vibrational information complementary to surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). To explore the conditions for an optimum electromagnetic enhancement of SEHRS by dimers of biocompatible gold nanospheres and gold nanorods, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations were carried out for a broad range of excitation wavelengths from the visible through the short-wave infrared (SWIR). The results confirm an important contribution by the enhancement of the intensity of the laser field, due to the two-photon, non-linear excitation of the effect. For excitation laser wavelengths above 1,000 nm, the hyper Raman scattering (HRS) field determines the enhancement in SEHRS significantly, despite its linear contribution, due to resonances of the HRS light with plasmon modes of the gold nanodimers. The high robustness of the SEHRS enhancement across the SWIR wavelength range can compensate for variations in the optical properties of gold nanostructures in real biological environments.
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- Arpad Dusa
- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Zhu S, Fan C, Liang E, Ding P, Dong X, Hao H, Hou H, Wu Y. Plasmon coupling nanorice trimer for ultrahigh enhancement of hyper-Raman scattering. Sci Rep 2021; 11:1230. [PMID: 33441612 PMCID: PMC7806829 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-78814-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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A new tactic that using Ag nanorice trimer as surface-enhanced hyper Raman scattering substrate is proposed for realizing maximum signal enhancement. In this paper, we numerically simulate and theoretically analyze the optical properties of the nanorice trimer consisting of two short nanorices and a long nanorice. The Ag nanorice trimer can excite Fano resonance at optical frequencies based on the strong interaction between the bright and the dark mode. The bright mode is attributed to the first longitudinal resonance of the short nanorice pair, while the dark mode originates from the third longitudinal mode resonance of the long nanorice. The electric field distributions demonstrate that the two resonances with the largest field strength correspond to the first-order resonance of the long nanorice and the Fano resonance of the trimer, respectively. Two plasmon resonances with maximum electromagnetic field enhancements and same spatial hot spot regions can match spectrally with the pump and second-order Stokes beams of hyper Raman scattering, respectively, through reasonable design of the trimer structure parameters. The estimated enhancement factor of surface-enhanced hyper Raman scattering can achieve as high as 5.32 × 1013.
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- Shuangmei Zhu
- grid.494634.8Henan Key Laboratory of Electronic Ceramic Materials and Application and College of Science, Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou, 451191 China ,grid.207374.50000 0001 2189 3846College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001 China ,Henan Shijia Photons Technology Co., Ltd., Hebi, 458030 China
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- grid.207374.50000 0001 2189 3846School of Physics and Microelectronics and MOE Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001 China
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- grid.207374.50000 0001 2189 3846School of Physics and Microelectronics and MOE Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001 China
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- grid.464501.20000 0004 1799 3504School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics, Zhengzhou, 450046 China
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- grid.494634.8Henan Key Laboratory of Electronic Ceramic Materials and Application and College of Science, Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou, 451191 China
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- grid.494634.8Henan Key Laboratory of Electronic Ceramic Materials and Application and College of Science, Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou, 451191 China
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- grid.207374.50000 0001 2189 3846College of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, 450001 China
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- Henan Shijia Photons Technology Co., Ltd., Hebi, 458030 China
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Madzharova F, Heiner Z, Kneipp J. Surface-Enhanced Hyper Raman Spectra of Aromatic Thiols on Gold and Silver Nanoparticles. J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces 2020; 124:6233-6241. [PMID: 32395194 PMCID: PMC7208179 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c00294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2020] [Revised: 02/14/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We report the two-photon excited nonresonant surface-enhanced hyper Raman scattering (SEHRS) spectra of six aromatic thiol molecules during their interaction with gold and silver nanostructures. SEHRS spectra were obtained from thiophenol, benzyl mercaptan, and phenylethyl mercaptan and from the three isomers 2-aminothiophenol (2-ATP), 3-aminothiophenol (3-ATP), and 4-aminothiophenol (4-ATP). All SEHRS spectra were excited off-resonance at a wavelength of 1064 nm and compared to surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra excited at 785 nm or at 633 nm. The SEHRS spectra show a different interaction of thiophenol, benzyl mercaptan, and phenylethyl mercaptan with silver and gold nanostructures. Density functional theory calculations were used to support band assignments, in particular, for the unknown SERS spectrum of 3-ATP, and identify a band of phenylethyl mercaptan as a vibrational mode unique to the SEHRS spectrum and very weak in the Raman and infrared spectra. 2-ATP, 3-ATP, and 4-ATP show a different interaction with gold nanostructures that was found to depend on pH. Bands in the SEHRS spectrum of 2-ATP could be assigned to 2,2'-dimercaptoazobenzene, suggested to be obtained in a plasmon-assisted reaction that occurred during the SEHRS experiment. The results provide the basis for a better characterization of organic thiols at surfaces in a variety of fields, including surface functionalization and plasmonic catalysis.
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Langer J, Jimenez de Aberasturi D, Aizpurua J, Alvarez-Puebla RA, Auguié B, Baumberg JJ, Bazan GC, Bell SEJ, Boisen A, Brolo AG, Choo J, Cialla-May D, Deckert V, Fabris L, Faulds K, García de Abajo FJ, Goodacre R, Graham D, Haes AJ, Haynes CL, Huck C, Itoh T, Käll M, Kneipp J, Kotov NA, Kuang H, Le Ru EC, Lee HK, Li JF, Ling XY, Maier SA, Mayerhöfer T, Moskovits M, Murakoshi K, Nam JM, Nie S, Ozaki Y, Pastoriza-Santos I, Perez-Juste J, Popp J, Pucci A, Reich S, Ren B, Schatz GC, Shegai T, Schlücker S, Tay LL, Thomas KG, Tian ZQ, Van Duyne RP, Vo-Dinh T, Wang Y, Willets KA, Xu C, Xu H, Xu Y, Yamamoto YS, Zhao B, Liz-Marzán LM. Present and Future of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering. ACS Nano 2020; 14:28-117. [PMID: 31478375 PMCID: PMC6990571 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b04224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1286] [Impact Index Per Article: 321.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/03/2019] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
Abstract
The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical techniques. Significant experimental and theoretical effort has been directed toward understanding the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect and demonstrating its potential in various types of ultrasensitive sensing applications in a wide variety of fields. In the 45 years since its discovery, SERS has blossomed into a rich area of research and technology, but additional efforts are still needed before it can be routinely used analytically and in commercial products. In this Review, prominent authors from around the world joined together to summarize the state of the art in understanding and using SERS and to predict what can be expected in the near future in terms of research, applications, and technological development. This Review is dedicated to SERS pioneer and our coauthor, the late Prof. Richard Van Duyne, whom we lost during the preparation of this article.
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- Judith Langer
- CIC
biomaGUNE and CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Miramón 182, Donostia-San Sebastián 20014, Spain
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- Materials
Physics Center (CSIC-UPV/EHU), and Donostia
International Physics Center, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, Donostia-San
Sebastián 20018, Spain
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- Departamento
de Química Física e Inorgánica and EMaS, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona 43007, Spain
- ICREA-Institució
Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain
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- School
of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria
University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- The
MacDiarmid
Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- The Dodd-Walls
Centre for Quantum and Photonic Technologies, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- NanoPhotonics
Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University
of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Materials and Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa
Barbara, California 93106-9510, United States
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- School
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s
University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Micro- and Nanotechnology, The Danish National Research Foundation
and Villum Foundation’s Center for Intelligent Drug Delivery
and Sensing Using Microcontainers and Nanomechanics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, BC V8W 3 V6, Canada
- Center
for Advanced Materials and Related Technologies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
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- Department
of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, South Korea
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- Leibniz
Institute of Photonic Technology Jena - Member of the research alliance “Leibniz Health Technologies”, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, Jena 07745, Germany
- Institute
of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Leibniz
Institute of Photonic Technology Jena - Member of the research alliance “Leibniz Health Technologies”, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, Jena 07745, Germany
- Institute
of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Rutgers
University, 607 Taylor Road, Piscataway New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Department
of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University
of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom
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- ICREA-Institució
Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona 08010, Spain
- The Barcelona
Institute of Science and Technology, Institut
de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona) 08860, Spain
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- Department
of Biochemistry, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Biosciences Building, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZB, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University
of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Kirchhoff
Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Nano-Bioanalysis
Research Group, Health Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0395, Japan
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- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg S412 96, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, Berlin-Adlershof 12489, Germany
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Key Lab
of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, International
Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
- State Key
Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, JiangSu 214122, China
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- School
of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria
University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- The
MacDiarmid
Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
- The Dodd-Walls
Centre for Quantum and Photonic Technologies, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand
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- Division
of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical
Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford
University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- State Key
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative
Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Division
of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical
Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore
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- Chair in
Hybrid Nanosystems, Nanoinstitute Munich, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich 80539, Germany
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- Leibniz
Institute of Photonic Technology Jena - Member of the research alliance “Leibniz Health Technologies”, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, Jena 07745, Germany
- Institute
of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University
of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9510, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido
University, North 10 West 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo,
Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1406 W. Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, Japan
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- Departamento
de Química Física and CINBIO, University of Vigo, Vigo 36310, Spain
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- Leibniz
Institute of Photonic Technology Jena - Member of the research alliance “Leibniz Health Technologies”, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, Jena 07745, Germany
- Institute
of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, Jena 07745, Germany
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- Kirchhoff
Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department
of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany
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- State Key
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative
Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Department
of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg S412 96, Sweden
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- Physical
Chemistry I, Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanointegration
Duisburg-Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45141, Germany
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- National
Research Council Canada, Metrology Research
Centre, Ottawa K1A0R6, Canada
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- School
of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Vithura Thiruvananthapuram 695551, India
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- State Key
Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative
Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, MOE Key Laboratory
of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, Department of Chemistry,
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, United States
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- Fitzpatrick
Institute for Photonics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, and
Department of Chemistry, Duke University, 101 Science Drive, Box 90281, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Northeastern
University, Shenyang 110819, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Key Lab
of Synthetic and Biological Colloids, Ministry of Education, International
Joint Research Laboratory for Biointerface and Biodetection, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, China
- State Key
Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, JiangSu 214122, China
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- School
of Physics and Technology and Institute for Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen’s
University of Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, United Kingdom
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- School
of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute
of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan
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- State Key
Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
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- CIC
biomaGUNE and CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Miramón 182, Donostia-San Sebastián 20014, Spain
- Ikerbasque,
Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao 48013, Spain
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Abstract
In 2010, Tian et al. reported the development of a new, relatively sensitive method of the chemical analysis of various surfaces, including buried interfaces (for example the surfaces of solid samples in a high-pressure gas or a liquid), which makes it possible to analyze various biological samples in situ. They called their method shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SHINERS). SHINERS spectroscopy is a type of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in which an increase in the efficiency of the Raman scattering is induced by plasmonic nanoparticles acting as electromagnetic resonators that locally significantly enhance the electric field of the incident electromagnetic radiation. In the case of SHINERS measurements, the plasmonic nanoparticles are covered by a very thin transparent protective layer (formed, for example, from various oxides such as SiO2, MnO2, TiO2, or organic polymers) that does not significantly damp surface electromagnetic enhancement, but does separate the nanoparticles from direct contact with the probed material and keeps them from agglomerating. Preventing direct contact between the metal plasmonic structures and the analyzed samples is especially important when biological samples are investigated, because direct interaction between the metal nanoparticles and various biological molecules (e.g., peptides) may lead to a change in the structure of those biomolecules. In this mini-review, the state of the art of SHINERS spectroscopy is briefly described.
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Clark ML, Ge A, Videla PE, Rudshteyn B, Miller CJ, Song J, Batista VS, Lian T, Kubiak CP. CO2 Reduction Catalysts on Gold Electrode Surfaces Influenced by Large Electric Fields. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:17643-17655. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Melissa L. Clark
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0358, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0358, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Energy Sciences Institute, Yale University, 225 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0358, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Zhu S, Fan C, Ding P, Liang E, Hou H, Wu Y. Theoretical investigation of a plasmonic substrate with multi-resonance for surface enhanced hyper-Raman scattering. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11891. [PMID: 30089880 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30331-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 07/26/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Because of the unique selection rule, hyper-Raman scattering (HRS) can provide spectral information that linear Raman and infrared spectroscopy cannot obtain. However, the weak signal is the key bottleneck that restricts the application of HRS technique in study of the molecular structure, surface or interface behavior. Here, we theoretically design and investigate a kind of plasmonic substrate consisting of Ag nanorices for enhancing the HRS signal based on the electromagnetic enhancement mechanism. The Ag nanorice can excite multiple resonances at optical and near-infrared frequencies. By properly designing the structure parameters of Ag nanorice, multi- plasmon resonances with large electromagnetic field enhancements can be excited, when the "hot spots" locate on the same spatial positions and the resonance wavelengths match with the pump and the second-order Stokes beams, respectively. Assisted by the field enhancements resulting from the first- and second-longitudinal plasmon resonance of Ag nanorice, the enhancement factor of surface enhanced hyper-Raman scattering can reach as high as 5.08 × 109, meaning 9 orders of magnitude enhancement over the conventional HRS without the plasmonic substrate.
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Trujillo M, Camden JP. Utilizing Molecular Hyperpolarizability for Trace Analysis: A Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering Study of Uranyl Ion. ACS Omega 2018; 3:6660-6664. [PMID: 31458840 PMCID: PMC6644803 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2018] [Accepted: 06/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Surface-enhanced hyper-Raman scattering (SEHRS), the nonlinear analog of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), provides unique spectral signatures arising from the molecular hyperpolarizability. In this work, we explore the differences between SERS and SEHRS spectra obtained from surface-bound uranyl ion. Exploiting the distinctive SEHRS bands for trace detection of the uranyl ion, we obtain excellent sensitivity (limit of detection = 90 ppb) despite the extreme weakness of the hyper-Raman effect. We observe that binding the uranyl ion to the carboxylate group of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA) leads to significant changes in the SEHRS spectrum, whereas the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrum of the same complex is little changed. The SERS and SEHRS spectra are also examined as a function of both substituent position, using 2-MBA, 3-MBA, and 4-MBA, and the carbon chain length, using 4-mercaptophenylacetic acid and 4-mercaptophenylpropionic acid. These results illustrate that the unique features of SEHRS can yield more information than SERS in certain cases and represent the first application of SEHRS for trace analysis of nonresonant molecules.
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Sprague-Klein EA, McAnally MO, Zhdanov DV, Zrimsek AB, Apkarian VA, Seideman T, Schatz GC, Van Duyne RP. Observation of Single Molecule Plasmon-Driven Electron Transfer in Isotopically Edited 4,4′-Bipyridine Gold Nanosphere Oligomers. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:15212-15221. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b08868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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Heiner Z, Gühlke M, Živanović V, Madzharova F, Kneipp J. Surface-enhanced hyper Raman hyperspectral imaging and probing in animal cells. Nanoscale 2017; 9:8024-8032. [PMID: 28574069 DOI: 10.1039/c7nr02762a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Hyper Raman scattering, that is, spontaneous, two-photon excited Raman scattering, of organic molecules becomes strong when it occurs as surface-enhanced hyper Raman scattering (SEHRS), in the proximity of plasmonic nanostructures. Its advantages over one-photon excited surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) include complementary vibrational information resulting from different selection rules, probing of very small focal volumes, and beneficial excitation with long wavelengths. Here, imaging of macrophage cells by SEHRS is demonstrated, using SEHRS labels consisting of silver nanoparticles and two different molecules, 2-naphthalenethiol and para-mercaptobenzoic acid, that are excited off-resonance. The vibrational signatures of the molecules are discriminated using hyperspectral analysis and provide information about the subcellular localization of the SEHRS probes. The SEHRS based hyperspectral imaging approach presented here uses principal component analysis (PCA) to localize the reporter molecules inside the cells and is augmented by hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). The high sensitivity of SEHRS spectra with respect to small environmental changes can be utilized for mapping of physiological parameters in the endosomal system of the cells. This is illustrated by discussing the spatial distribution of endosomes of varying pH inside the cytosol.
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- Zsuzsanna Heiner
- SALSA School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Str. 5-9, 12489 Berlin, Germany and Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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- SALSA School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Str. 5-9, 12489 Berlin, Germany and Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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- SALSA School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Str. 5-9, 12489 Berlin, Germany and Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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Surface enhanced hyper Raman scattering (SEHRS) is the spontaneous, two-photon excited Raman scattering that occurs for molecules residing in high local optical fields of plasmonic nanostructures. Being regarded as a non-linear analogue of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), SEHRS shares most of its properties, but also has additional characteristics. They include complementary spectroscopic information resulting from different selection rules and a stronger enhancement due to the non-linearity in excitation. In practical spectroscopy, this can translate to advantages, which include a high selectivity when probing molecule-surface interactions, the possibility of probing molecules at low concentrations due to the strong enhancement, and the advantages that come with excitation in the near-infrared. In this review, we give examples of the wealth of vibrational spectroscopic information that can be obtained by SEHRS and discuss work that has contributed to understanding the effect and that therefore provides directions for SEHRS spectroscopy. Future applications could range from biophotonics to materials research.
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- Fani Madzharova
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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Turley HK, Hu Z, Jensen L, Camden JP. Surface-Enhanced Resonance Hyper-Raman Scattering Elucidates the Molecular Orientation of Rhodamine 6G on Silver Colloids. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:1819-1823. [PMID: 28383922 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Herein, we utilize surface-enhanced hyper-Raman scattering (SEHRS) under resonance conditions to probe the adsorbate geometry of rhodamine 6G (R6G) on silver colloids. Our results show resonance SEHRS is highly sensitive to molecular orientation due to non-Condon effects, which do not appear in its linear counterpart surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Comparisons between simulated and measured SEHRS spectra reveal R6G adsorbs mostly perpendicular to the nanoparticle surface along the ethylamine groups with the xanthene ring oriented edgewise. Our results expand upon previous studies that rely on indirect, qualitative probes of R6G's orientation on plasmonic substrates. More importantly, this work represents the first determination of adsorbate geometry by SEHRS and opens up the possibility to study the orientation of single molecules in complex, plasmonic environments.
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- Hubert K Turley
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University , 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-4615, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University , 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-4615, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, Indiana 46556-5670, United States
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Gühlke M, Heiner Z, Kneipp J. Surface-Enhanced Raman and Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering of Thiol-Functionalized Carotene. J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces 2016; 120:20702-20709. [PMID: 28077983 PMCID: PMC5215674 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b01895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2016] [Revised: 04/21/2016] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A thiol-modified carotene, 7'-apo-7'-(4-mercaptomethylphenyl)-β-carotene, was used to obtain nonresonant surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of carotene at an excitation wavelength of 1064 nm, which were compared with resonant SERS spectra at an excitation wavelength of 532 nm. These spectra and surface-enhanced hyper-Raman scattering (SEHRS) spectra of the functionalized carotene were compared with the spectra of nonmodified β-carotene. Using SERS, normal Raman, and SEHRS spectra, all obtained for the resonant case, the interaction of the carotene molecules with silver nanoparticles, as well as the influence of the resonance enhancement and the SERS enhancement on the spectra, were investigated. The interaction with the silver surface occurs for both functionalized and nonfunctionalized β-carotene, but only the stronger functionalization-induced interaction enables the acquisition of nonresonant SERS spectra of β-carotene at low concentrations. The resonant SEHRS and SERS spectra are very similar. Nevertheless, the SEHRS spectra contain additional bands of infrared-active modes of carotene. Increased contributions from bands that experience low resonance enhancement point to a strong interaction between silver nanoparticles and electronic levels of the molecules, thereby giving rise to a decrease in the resonance enhancement in SERS and SEHRS.
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- Marina Gühlke
- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- School
of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA, Humboldt University of Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Straße 5-9, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- School
of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA, Humboldt University of Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Straße 5-9, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Sugawa K, Uchida K, Takeshima N, Jin S, Tsunenari N, Takeda H, Kida Y, Akiyama T, Otsuki J, Takase K, Yamada S. Extraordinary enhancement of porphyrin photocurrent utilizing plasmonic silver arrays. Nanoscale 2016; 8:15467-15472. [PMID: 27420651 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr03158g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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We demonstrate up to ∼630-fold enhancement of the photocurrent from a porphyrin monolayer on a plasmonic Ag-array electrode showing plasmon absorption in the Q-band region relative to that on a planar Ag electrode. The photocurrent obtained by the Q-band excitation in the plasmonic electrodes even exceeded that obtained by the Soret-band excitation in a normal, nonplasmonic electrode.
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- Kosuke Sugawa
- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Materials Science, School of Engineering, The University of Shiga Prefecture, Hikone, Shiga 522-8533, Japan
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- Department of Materials and Applied Chemistry, College of Science Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan
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- Department of Physics, College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, 744 Moto-oka, Nishiku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan.
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Jiang N, Kurouski D, Pozzi EA, Chiang N, Hersam MC, Van Duyne RP. Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: From concepts to practical applications. Chem Phys Lett 2016; 659:16-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.06.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Madzharova F, Heiner Z, Gühlke M, Kneipp J. Surface-Enhanced Hyper-Raman Spectra of Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, and Uracil. J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces 2016; 120:15415-15423. [PMID: 28077982 PMCID: PMC5215682 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b02753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Revised: 05/24/2016] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Using picosecond excitation at 1064 nm, surface-enhanced hyper-Raman scattering (SEHRS) spectra of the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil with two different types of silver nanoparticles were obtained. Comparing the SEHRS spectra with SERS data from the identical samples excited at 532 nm and with known infrared spectra, the major bands in the spectra are assigned. Due to the different selection rules for the one- and two-photon excited Raman scattering, we observe strong variation in relative signal strengths of many molecular vibrations obtained in SEHRS and SERS spectra. The two-photon excited spectra of the nucleobases are found to be very sensitive with respect to molecule-nanoparticle interactions. Using both the SEHRS and SERS data, a comprehensive vibrational characterization of the interaction of nucleobases with silver nanostructures can be achieved.
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- Fani Madzharova
- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse
2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse
2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- School
of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 5-11, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse
2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse
2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- School
of Analytical Sciences Adlershof SALSA, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 5-11, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Gühlke M, Heiner Z, Kneipp J. Combined near-infrared excited SEHRS and SERS spectra of pH sensors using silver nanostructures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:26093-100. [PMID: 26377486 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03844h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Surface-enhanced hyper-Raman scattering (SEHRS) and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of para-mercaptobenzoic acid (pMBA) were studied with an excitation wavelength of 1064 nm, using different silver nanostructures as substrates for both SEHRS and SERS. The spectra acquired for different pH values between pH 2 and pH 12 were compared with SERS data obtained from the identical samples at 532 nm excitation. Comparison of the ratios of the enhancement factors from SEHRS and SERS experiments with those from calculations using plasmonic absorbance spectra suggests that the difference between total surface-enhancement factors of SEHRS and SERS for pMBA is mainly explained by a difference between the electromagnetic contributions for linear and non-linear SERS. SERS and SEHRS spectra obtained at near-infrared (NIR) excitation indicate an overall reduction of enhancement by a factor of 2-3 at very low and very high pH, compared to neutral pH. Our data provide evidence that different molecular vibrations and/or different adsorption species are probed in SERS and SEHRS, and that SEHRS is very sensitive to slight changes in the pMBA-nanostructure interactions. We conclude that the combination of SEHRS and SERS using NIR excitation is more powerful for micro-environmental pH sensing than one-photon spectra excited in the visible range alone.
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- Marina Gühlke
- Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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The shape of polymer particles plays an important role in determining their function. In this paper, we describe a simple and unconventional method called shell-shield etching (SSE) that allows us to prepare freestanding submicrometer- or micrometer-sized polymer particles with various shapes. By precisely varying the time of ultraviolet ozone treatment under the partial shielding effect of the silica shell, we controllably reshape polymer spheres into symmetry-reduced polymer peaches, mushrooms, bowls, and plates. Finite difference time domain simulations indicate that the non-spherical particles obtained from the SSE method might have potential for near-field nanopatterning applications.
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- Jian Ye
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Medicine Device and Technology at Med-X, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai, 200030, People's Republic of China
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Kim D, Campos AR, Datt A, Gao Z, Rycenga M, Burrows ND, Greeneltch NG, Mirkin CA, Murphy CJ, Van Duyne RP, Haynes CL. Microfluidic-SERS devices for one shot limit-of-detection. Analyst 2014; 139:3227-3234. [PMID: 24756225 PMCID: PMC4067008 DOI: 10.1039/c4an00357h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Microfluidic sensing platforms facilitate parallel, low sample volume detection using various optical signal transduction mechanisms. Herein, we introduce a simple mixing microfluidic device, enabling serial dilution of introduced analyte solution that terminates in five discrete sensing elements. We demonstrate the utility of this device with on-chip fluorescence and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection of analytes, and we demonstrate device use both when combined with a traditional inflexible SERS substrate and with SERS-active nanoparticles that are directly incorporated into microfluidic channels to create a flexible SERS platform. The results indicate, with varying sensitivities, that either flexible or inflexible devices can be easily used to create a calibration curve and perform a limit of detection study with a single experiment.
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- Donghyuk Kim
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, Illinois 60208 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, Illinois 60208 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, Illinois 60208 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 505 S Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, Illinois 60208 U.S.A
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455 U.S.A
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Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) can probe chemistry occurring at surfaces with both nanometer spectroscopic and submolecular spatial resolution. Combining ultrafast spectroscopy with TERS allows for picosecond and, in principle, femtosecond temporal resolution. Here we couple an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) with a scanning tunneling microscopy (STM)-TERS microscope to excite the tip plasmon with a picosecond excitation source. The plasmonic tip was not damaged with OPO excitation, and TER spectra were observed for two resonant adsorbates. The TERS signal under ultrafast pulsed excitation decays on the time scale of 10 s of seconds; whereas with continuous-wave excitation no decay occurs. An analysis of possible decay mechanisms and their temporal characteristics is given.
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- Jordan M Klingsporn
- Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Cinel NA, Bütün S, Ertaş G, Ozbay E. 'Fairy Chimney'-shaped tandem metamaterials as double resonance SERS substrates. Small 2013; 9:531-537. [PMID: 23060087 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201201286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2012] [Revised: 08/22/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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A highly tunable design for obtaining double resonance substrates to be used in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is proposed. Tandem truncated nanocones composed of Au-SiO(2)-Au layers are designed, simulated and fabricated to obtain resonances at laser excitation and Stokes frequencies. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering experiments are conducted to compare the enhancements obtained from double resonance substrates to those obtained from single resonance gold truncated nanocones. The best enhancement factor obtained using the new design is 3.86 × 10(7). The resultant tandem structures are named after "Fairy Chimneys" rock formation in Cappadocia, Turkey.
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- Neval A Cinel
- Nanotechnology Research Center, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, 06800 Bilkent, Turkey.
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Aggarwal RL, Farrar LW, Greeneltch NG, Van Duyne RP, Polla DL. Measurement of the surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS) due to the 1574 cm(-1) surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) mode of benzenethiol using low-power (<20 mW) CW diode lasers. Appl Spectrosc 2013; 67:132-135. [PMID: 23622430 DOI: 10.1366/12-06714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS) from a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of benzenethiol on a silver-coated surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate has been measured for the 1574 cm(-1) SERS mode. A value of 9.6 ± 1.7×10(-14) W was determined for the resonant component of the SECARS signal using 17.8 mW of 784.9 nm pump laser power and 7.1 mW of 895.5 nm Stokes laser power; the pump and Stokes lasers were polarized parallel to each other but perpendicular to the grooves of the diffraction grating in the spectrometer. The measured value of resonant component of the SECARS signal is in agreement with the calculated value of 9.3×10(-14) W using the measured value of 8.7 ± 0.5 cm(-1) for the SERS linewidth Γ (full width at half-maximum) and the value of 5.7 ± 1.4×10(-7) for the product of the Raman cross section σSERS and the surface concentration Ns of the benzenethiol SAM. The xxxx component of the resonant part of the third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility |3 χxxxx((3)R)| for the 1574 cm(-1) SERS mode has been determined to be 4.3 ± 1.1×10(-5) cm·g(-1)·s(2). The SERS enhancement factor for the 1574 cm(-1) mode was determined to be 3.6 ± 0.9×10(7) using the value of 1.8×10(15) molecules/cm(2) for Ns.
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Grubisic A, Ringe E, Cobley CM, Xia Y, Marks LD, Van Duyne RP, Nesbitt DJ. Plasmonic near-electric field enhancement effects in ultrafast photoelectron emission: correlated spatial and laser polarization microscopy studies of individual Ag nanocubes. Nano Lett 2012; 12:4823-4829. [PMID: 22845792 DOI: 10.1021/nl302271u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Electron emission from single, supported Ag nanocubes excited with ultrafast laser pulses (λ = 800 nm) is studied via spatial and polarization correlated (i) dark field scattering microscopy (DFM), (ii) scanning photoionization microscopy (SPIM), and (iii) high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Laser-induced electron emission is found to peak for laser polarization aligned with cube diagonals, suggesting the critical influence of plasmonic near-field enhancement of the incident electric field on the overall electron yield. For laser pulses with photon energy below the metal work function, coherent multiphoton photoelectron emission (MPPE) is identified as the most probable mechanism responsible for electron emission from Ag nanocubes and likely metal nanoparticles/surfaces in general.
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- Andrej Grubisic
- JILA, University of Colorado and National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Aggarwal RL, Farrar LW, Greeneltch NG, Van Duyne RP, Polla DL. Measurement of the Raman line widths of neat benzenethiol and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of benzenethiol on a silver-coated surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate. Appl Spectrosc 2012; 66:740-743. [PMID: 22709505 DOI: 10.1366/12-06597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Raman line widths of neat benzenethiol and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of benzenethiol on a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate have been measured using a mini spectrometer with a resolution (full width at half-maximum) of 3.3 ± 0.2 cm(-1). Values of 7.3 ± 0.7, 4.6 ± 0.6, 2.4 ± 0.6, 3.2 ± 0.5, 8.8 ± 0.9, and 11.0 ± 1.1 cm(-1) have been determined for the Raman line widths of the 414, 700, 1001, 1026, 1093, and 1584 cm(-1) modes of neat benzenethiol. Values of 13.3 ± 0.7, 9.1 ± 0.7, 5.1 ± 0.6, 5.9 ± 0.6, 13.3 ± 0.5, and 8.7 ± 0.5 cm(-1) have been determined for the SERS line widths of a benzenethiol SAM on a silver-coated SERS substrate for the corresponding frequency-shifted modes at 420, 691, 1000, 1023, 1072, and 1574 cm(-1). The line widths for the SERS modes at 420, 691, 1000, 1023, and 1072 cm(-1) are about a factor of two larger than those of the corresponding Raman modes. However, the line width of the SERS mode at 1574 cm(-1) is slightly smaller than the corresponding Raman mode at 1584 cm(-1).
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Zeng J, Jean DI, Ji C, Zou S. In situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic studies of nafion adsorption on Au and Pt electrodes. Langmuir 2012; 28:957-964. [PMID: 22103744 DOI: 10.1021/la2035455] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Understanding interactions between Nafion (perfluorosulfonic acid) and Pt catalysts is important for the development and deployment of proton exchange membrane fuel cells. However, study of such interactions is challenging and Nafion/Pt interfacial structure remains elusive. In this study, adsorption of Nafion ionomer on Au and Pt surfaces was investigated for the first time by in situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. The study is made possible by the use of uniform SiO(2)@Au core-shell particle arrays which provides very strong enhancement of Raman scattering. The high surface sensitivity offered by this approach yields insightful information on interfacial Nafion structure. Through spectral comparison of several model compounds, vibration assignments of SERS bands were made. The SER spectra suggest the direct interaction of sulfonate group with the metal surfaces, in accord with cyclic voltammetric results. Comparison of present SERS results with previous IR spectra was briefly made.
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- Jianbo Zeng
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, United States
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Akil-Jradi S, Jradi S, Plain J, Adam PM, Bijeon JL, Royer P, Bachelot R. Micro/nanoporous polymer chips as templates for highly sensitive SERS sensors. RSC Adv 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/c2ra21186f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Lee CH, Hankus ME, Tian L, Pellegrino PM, Singamaneni S. Highly Sensitive Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates Based on Filter Paper Loaded with Plasmonic Nanostructures. Anal Chem 2011; 83:8953-8. [DOI: 10.1021/ac2016882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 226] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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- Chang H. Lee
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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- U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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- U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, Adelphi, Maryland 20783-1197, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is an analytical sensing method that provides label-free detection, molecularly specific information, and extremely high sensitivity. The Raman enhancement that makes this method attractive is mainly attributed to the local amplification of the incident electromagnetic field that occurs when a surface plasmon mode is excited at a metallic nanostructure. Here, we present a simple, cost effective method for creating flexible, large area SERS-active substrates using a new technique we call shadow mask assisted evaporation (SMAE). The advantage of large, flexible SERS substrates such as these is they have more area for multiplexing and can be incorporated into irregular surfaces such as clothing. We demonstrate the formation of four different types of nanostructure arrays (pillar, nib, ellipsoidal cylinder, and triangular tip) by controlling the evaporation angle, substrate rotation, and deposition rate of metals onto anodized alumina nanoporous membranes as large as 27 mm. In addition, we present experimental results showing how a hybrid structure comprising of gold nanospheres embedded in a silver nano-pillar structure can be used to obtain a 50× SERS enhancement over the raw nanoparticles themselves.
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- Aram J Chung
- Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Seth M. Morton
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Chemistry Building, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is performed on pairs of gold nanoparticles, for which the nanoparticles in each pair have different shapes. The dimers therefore exhibit two plasmon resonances. These structures, termed mixed dimer double-resonance substrates, enable strong field enhancement at pump and Stokes frequencies in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. The extinction spectra of mixed dimers are measured and simulated to identify their plasmon resonances. The experimentally determined enhancement factors of double-resonance structures are compared to those of single-resonance substrates.
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- Mohamad G Banaee
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States.
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Milojevich CB, Silverstein DW, Jensen L, Camden JP. Probing One-Photon Inaccessible Electronic States with High Sensitivity: Wavelength Scanned Surface Enhanced Hyper-Raman Scattering. Chemphyschem 2010; 12:101-3. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201000868] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Itoh T, Yoshikawa H, Yoshida KI, Biju V, Ishikawa M. Spectral variations in background light emission of surface-enhanced resonance hyper Raman scattering coupled with plasma resonance of individual silver nanoaggregates. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:124704. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3489920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Valley N, Jensen L, Autschbach J, Schatz GC. Theoretical studies of surface enhanced hyper-Raman spectroscopy: The chemical enhancement mechanism. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:054103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3456544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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- Anne Myers Kelley
- School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, California 95343;
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Itoh T, Yoshikawa H, Yoshida K, Biju V, Ishikawa M. Evaluation of electromagnetic enhancement of surface enhanced hyper Raman scattering using plasmonic properties of binary active sites in single Ag nanoaggregates. J Chem Phys 2009; 130:214706. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3146788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Bantz KC, Haynes CL. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates fabricated using electroless plating on polymer-templated nanostructures. Langmuir 2008; 24:5862-5867. [PMID: 18461977 DOI: 10.1021/la800103b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has great potential as an analytical technique based on the unique molecular signatures presented even by structurally similar analyte species and the minimal interference of scattering from water when sampling in aqueous environments. Unfortunately, analytical SERS applications have been restricted on the basis of limitations in substrate design. Herein, we present a simple SERS substrate that exploits electroless deposition onto a nanoparticle-seeded polymer scaffold that can be fabricated quickly and without specialized equipment. The polymer-templated nanostructures have stable enhancement factors that are comparable to the traditional silver film over nanospheres (AgFON) substrate, broad localized surface plasmon resonance spectra that allow various Raman excitation wavelengths to be utilized, and tolerance for both aqueous and organic environments, even after 5 day exposure. These polymer-templated nanostructures have an advantage over the AgFON substrate based on the ease of fabrication; specifically, the ability to generate fresh SERS substrates outside the laboratory environment will facilitate the application of SERS to new analytical spectroscopy applications.
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- Kyle C Bantz
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis, MI 55455, USA
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The ability to control the size, shape, and material of a surface has reinvigorated the field of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Because excitation of the localized surface plasmon resonance of a nanostructured surface or nanoparticle lies at the heart of SERS, the ability to reliably control the surface characteristics has taken SERS from an interesting surface phenomenon to a rapidly developing analytical tool. This article first explains many fundamental features of SERS and then describes the use of nanosphere lithography for the fabrication of highly reproducible and robust SERS substrates. In particular, we review metal film over nanosphere surfaces as excellent candidates for several experiments that were once impossible with more primitive SERS substrates (e.g., metal island films). The article also describes progress in applying SERS to the detection of chemical warfare agents and several biological molecules.
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- Paul L Stiles
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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