Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering: A Technique of Choice for Molecular Detection

2013 ◽  
Vol 754 ◽  
pp. 143-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Kamal Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Localized Surface Plasmon ◽  
Raman Signal ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Effective Development

Although surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has crossed its infancy long ago, it is yet to persuade different challenges to make it available in day-to-day applications. SERS is being criticized mainly due to the quality of the SERS analyses that uses substrates to get the giant enhancement for respective Raman signal of the target molecule. Hence, understanding the phenomena behind substrates, cost-effective development and optimization of such substrates for routine analytical purposes and utilization of modern modalities to get the insights out has become a very wide-spreading and interesting area of research. In this piece of work, several key terminologies related to SERS have been presented in brief. Since SERS is a localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) mediated signal-enhancing phenomena, it is indispensable to understand the correlation between LSPR excitations originated from substrate and SERS signal originated from molecules. A wide range of SERS-active substrates including scattered nanoaggregates, anisotropic assembly, two-dimensional nanostructure, multi-layered nanostructure of gold nanoparticles and colloidal approach have been used to interpret such correlation between LSPR excitations and SERS characteristics. Few exemplary applications of SERS have been also mentioned followed by typical simulative work how nanoobject behaves at different excitations and polarizations.

scholarly journals A Biomedical Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate: Functionalized Three-Dimensional Porous Membrane Decorated with Silver Nanoparticles

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Yuan ◽  
Jinghuai Fang ◽  
Yonglong Jin ◽  
Chaonan Wang ◽  
Tian Xu
Keyword(s):  
Silver Nanoparticles ◽  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Porous Membrane ◽  
Raman Signal ◽  
Functional Surface ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering

We fabricated a simple, cheap, and functional surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate for biomedical application. Hot spots between two close silver nanoparticles distributed in the skeleton of a three-dimensional porous membrane, especially in the pores, were formed. The dual poles of micropores in the membrane were discussed. The pores could protect the silver nanoparticles in the pores from being oxidized, which makes the membrane effective for a longer period of time. In addition,Staphylococcus aureuscells could be trapped by the micropores and then the Raman signal became stronger, indicating that the functional surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate is reliable.

Finite-Size Effects and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering in Noble-Metal Nanoparticles

2004 ◽  
Vol 818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vitaliy N. Pustovit ◽  
Tigran V. Shahbazyan
Keyword(s):  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Metal Nanoparticles ◽  
Noble Metal ◽  
Finite Size ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Noble Metal Nanoparticles ◽  
Raman Signal ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering

AbstractWe study the role of a strong electron confinement on the surface-enhanced Raman scattering from molecules adsorbed on small noble-metal nanoparticles. We describe a novel enhancement mechanism which originates from the different effect that confining potential has on s-band and d-band electrons. We demonstrate that the interplay between finite-size and screening efects in the nanoparticle surface layer leads to an enhancement of the surface plasmon local field acting on a molecule located in a close proximity to the metal surface. Our calculations show that the additional enhancement of the Raman signal is especially strong for small nanometer-sized nanoparticles.

scholarly journals Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Studies of Disc-on-Pillar (DOP) Arrays: Contrasting Enhancement Factor with Analytical Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 665-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Velez ◽  
Nickolay V. Lavrik ◽  
Ivan I. Kravchenko ◽  
Michael J. Sepaniak ◽  
Marco A. De Jesus
Keyword(s):  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Enhancement Factor ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Analytical Performance ◽  
Interparticle Spacing ◽  
Localized Surface Plasmon ◽  
Sers Substrate ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering

The use of nanomachining methods capable of reproducible construction of nano-arrayed devices have revolutionized the field of plasmonic sensing by the introduction of a diversity of rationally engineered designs. Significant strides have been made to fabricate plasmonic platforms with tailored interparticle gaps to improve their performance for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) applications. Over time, a dichotomy has emerged in the implementation of SERS for analytical applications, the construction of substrates, optimization of interparticle spacing as a means to optimize electromagnetic field enhancement at the localized surface plasmon level, and the substrate sensitivity over extended areas to achieve quantitative performance. This work assessed the enhancement factor of plasmonic Ag/SiO2/Si disc-on-pillar (DOP) arrays of variable pitch with its analytical performance for quantitative applications. Experimental data were compared with those from finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations used in the optimization of the array dimensions. A self-assembled monolayer (SAM) of benzenethiol rendered highly reproducible signals (RSD ∼4–10%) and SERS substrate enhancement factor (SSEF) values in the orders of 106–108 for all pitches. Spectra corresponding to rhodamine 6G (R6G) and 4-aminobenzoic acid demonstrated the advantages of using the more densely packed DOP arrays with a 160 nm pitch (gap = 40 nm) for quantitation in spite of the strongest SSEF was attained for a pitch of 520 nm corresponding to a 400 nm gap.

scholarly journals Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering-Based Lateral-Flow Immunoassay

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2228
Author(s):  
Boris Khlebtsov ◽  
Nikolai Khlebtsov
Keyword(s):  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Lateral Flow ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Low Sensitivity

Lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) have been developed and used in a wide range of applications, in point-of-care disease diagnoses, environmental safety, and food control. However, in its classical version, it has low sensitivity and can only perform semiquantitative detection, based on colorimetric signals. Over the past decade, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) tags have been developed in order to decrease the detection limit and enable the quantitative analysis of analytes. Of note, these tags needed new readout systems and signal processing algorithms, while the LFIA design remained unchanged. This review highlights SERS strategies of signal enhancement for LFIAs. The types of labels used, the possible gain in sensitivity from their use, methods of reading and processing the signal, and the prospects for use are discussed.

Ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection of urea by highly ordered Au/Cu hybrid nanostructure arrays

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (56) ◽  
pp. 7949-7952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Chen ◽  
Xinyi Zhang ◽  
Douglas R. MacFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Simple Approach ◽  
Hybrid Nanostructure ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Nanostructure Arrays ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering

We report a simple approach to fabricate cost-effective and highly sensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates based on Au/Cu hybrid nanostructure arrays for the detection of urea, an important molecule in biological and medical fields.

Multi-branched gold nanoparticles for Surface Enhanced Raman scattering characterization

2014 ◽  
Vol 1625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jencilin Johnston ◽  
Erik N. Taylor ◽  
Richard J. Gilbert ◽  
Thomas J. Webster
Keyword(s):  
Gold Nanoparticles ◽  
Raman Scattering ◽  
Noble Metals ◽  
Fluorescent Dyes ◽  
Synthesis Method ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering ◽  
Raman Signal ◽  
Surface Enhanced ◽  
Surface Enhanced Raman ◽  
Enhanced Raman Scattering

ABSTRACTSurface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a sensitive and reproducible vibrational spectroscopic technique used to detect and characterize molecules near the surface of noble metals like Au, Ag, Pt, Cu, etc. SERS enhances Raman signals through light-induced plasmonic vibrations occurring on irregular metal surfaces and localized electromagnetic augmentation. To better define nano-scale regions of the Raman signal enhancement, we generated gold nanoparticles with a unique multi-branched configuration along with surface-adsorbed fluorescent reporter molecules. The reporter molecules included a set of near-infra red active fluorescent dyes IR820 (green cyanine, photo electronic dye), DTTC (3, 3'-diethylthiatricarbocyanine iodide) and DTDC (3, 3'- diethylthiadicarbocyanine iodide). We employed a one-pot synthesis method in order to generate a stellate configuration in gold nanoparticles through the reduction of HAuCl4 with Good’s buffer, HEPES, at pH 7.4 and room temperature. A cell viability assay was performed with normal esophageal cells exposed to the multi-branched gold nanoparticles and SERS molecules to assess their toxicity. Our results demonstrate the capacity of multibranched gold nanoparticles linked to Raman reporter molecules to generate distinct signature spectra and, with the exception of the gold nanoparticles functionalized with DTTC, remain non-toxic to normal esophageal cells.

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