Detection of Nitrate and Sulfate Anions by Normal Raman Spectroscopy and SERS of Cationic-Coated, Silver Substrates

2000 ◽  
Vol 54 (8) ◽  
pp. 1126-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Mosier-Boss ◽  
S. H. Lieberman

The use of normal Raman spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) of cationic-coated, silver substrates to detect nitrate and sulfate ions in aqueous environments is examined. For normal Raman spectroscopy using near-infrared excitation, a linear concentration response was observed with detection limits of 260 and 440 ppm for nitrate and sulfate, respectively. Detection limits in the low parts-per-million concentration range for these anions are achieved by using cationic-coated, silver SERS substrates. Adsorption of the anions on the cationic-coated SERS substrates is described by a Frumkin isotherm.

The Analyst ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 139 (24) ◽  
pp. 6426-6434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelley C. Henderson ◽  
Edward S. Sheppard ◽  
Omar E. Rivera-Betancourt ◽  
Joo-Young Choi ◽  
Richard A. Dluhy ◽  
...  

The detection limits by NA-SERS and qPCR for the bacterial pathogenMycoplasma pneumoniaewere compared.


2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 0115001 ◽  
Author(s):  
熊洋 Xiong Yang ◽  
司民真 Si Minzhen ◽  
高飞 Gao Fei ◽  
张德清 Zhang Deqing

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 994-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyson V. Whitney ◽  
Francesca Casadio ◽  
Richard P. Van Duyne

Silver film over nanospheres (AgFONs) were successfully employed as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates to characterize several artists' red dyes including: alizarin, purpurin, carminic acid, cochineal, and lac dye. Spectra were collected on sample volumes (1 × 10−6 M or 15 ng/μL) similar to those that would be found in a museum setting and were found to be higher in resolution and consistency than those collected on silver island films (AgIFs). In fact, to the best of the authors' knowledge, this work presents the highest resolution spectrum of the artists' material cochineal to date. In order to determine an optimized SERS system for dye identification, experiments were conducted in which laser excitation wavelengths were matched with correlating AgFON localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) maxima. Enhancements of approximately two orders of magnitude were seen when resonance SERS conditions were met in comparison to non-resonance SERS conditions. Finally, because most samples collected in a museum contain multiple dyestuffs, AgFONs were employed to simultaneously identify individual dyes within several dye mixtures. These results indicate that AgFONs have great potential to be used to identify not only real artwork samples containing a single dye but also samples containing dyes mixtures.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Culha ◽  
Brian Cullum ◽  
Nickolay Lavrik ◽  
Charles K. Klutse

While surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been attracting a continuously increasing interest of scientific community since its discovery, it has enjoyed a particularly rapid growth in the last decade. Most notable recent advances in SERS include novel technological approaches to SERS substrates and innovative applications of SERS in medicine and molecular biology. While a number of excellent reviews devoted to SERS appeared in the literature over the last two decades, we will focus this paper more specifically on several promising trends that have been highlighted less frequently. In particular, we will briefly overview strategies in designing and fabricating SERS substrates using deterministic patterning and then cover most recent biological applications of SERS.


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