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Au-Au composites with inverse opal structure for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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Golden inverse opals additionally decorated with 15.5 ± 1.5 nm gold nanoparticles are proposed as reusable substrates for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Gold nanoparticles are found to be uniformly distributed making an input of enhancement ability of spectral characteristics with the colloidal system by ten times. This technique is demonstrated to be efficient in spectral features tuning via a combination of different gold derivatives. Two lasers served for resonant, pre-resonance, and non-resonance signal analyses. Reusability of the Au-Au composite films is demonstrated for methylene blue as a stable dye deposited onto the SERS chips using a 632.8-nm resonant laser for exciting. The enhancement factor for methylene blue achieved 108 and for rohodamine 6G was of about 105. It was observed that rinsing of Au-Au nanocomposite SERS films with distilled water and heating up to 100 °C followed by dropping on a new portion of Au colloids onto the platform regenerates the substrates.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to Prof. E.A.Goodilin, Prof. Kirill Napolskii, Dr. Nina Sapoletova, Prof. Elena A. Eremina, Prof. Oleg A. Shlyakhtin, and other colleagues for their excellent experience which was fundamental. We are also grateful to our colleagues Prof. Sergey Abramchuk, Anna Kozmenkova, Alexander Polyakov, and Alexander Nesterov for their experimental input in this project. The project was performed using the equipment and setups of the collective resource center of Moscow State University “Technologies for synthesis of new nanostructured materials and their complex characterization.”

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This project is supported by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research and Moscow Government (grant 15-33-70050_mol_a_mos).

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    N.A. Martynova, A.E. Goldt & A.V. Grigorieva

  2. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii prospekt 31, Moscow, Russia, 119991

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  3. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, bld. 3, Moscow, Russia, 143026

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Martynova, N., Goldt, A. & Grigorieva, A. Au-Au composites with inverse opal structure for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Gold Bull 51, 57–64 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13404-018-0234-3

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