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Uniform and reproducible plasmon-enhanced fluorescence substrate based on PMMA-coated, large-area Au@Ag nanorod arrays

Jun Sun1,§, Ziyang Li1,§, Yinghui Sun2,3,§, Liubiao Zhong1, Jing Huang1, Junchang Zhang1, Zhiqiang Liang1, Jianmei Chen1, Lin Jiang1( )
Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM)Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhou215123China
Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationSCollege of PhysicsOptoelectronics and EnergyInstitute of Chemical Power Sources & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and TechnologySoochow UniversitySuzhou215006China
Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy TechnologiesSoochow UniversitySuzhou215006China

§ Jun Sun, Ziyang Li and Yinghui Sun contributed equally to this work.

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Here we describe a plasmon-enhanced fluorescence substrate based on poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)-coated, large-area Au@Ag nanorod arrays. The use of a PMMA medium enables precise control of the competition between enhancing and quenching processes as a function of the distance between Au@Ag nanorods and dye molecules. At the optimal PMMA layer thickness of 56 nm (for which the distance between nanoparticles and dye molecules is 16 nm), a maximum enhancement of fluorescence of up to ~ 27 times is measured. The competition mechanism between enhancing and quenching processes depends on the thickness of the PMMA layer, which has been confirmed by consistent experimental and theoretical modeling results. Notably, the micropatterned metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) substrate exhibits high uniformity and reproducibility. The simple spin-coating process described herein provides an attractive, scalable, and low-cost strategy to produce uniform and reproducible large-area MEF substrates that can potentially be used in many fields, such as biochips, diagnostics, and photonics.

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Au@Ag nanorod arraysmetal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF)poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) layermicro patterninglocalized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR)

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Nano Research
Volume 11 Issue 2,
February 2018
Pages 953-965
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-017-1708-y
Cite this article:
Sun J, Li Z, Sun Y, et al. Uniform and reproducible plasmon-enhanced fluorescence substrate based on PMMA-coated, large-area Au@Ag nanorod arrays. Nano Research, 2018, 11(2): 953-965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1708-y

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Received: 22 January 2017
Revised: 04 June 2017
Accepted: 11 June 2017
Published: 29 July 2017
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