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Continuous mechanical tuning of plasmonic nanoassemblies for tunable and selective SERS platforms

Xiunan Yan1, Qing Chen1, Qun Song1, Ziyu Huo1, Ning Zhang2( ), Mingming Ma1( )
CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Hefei University, Hefei 230601, China
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The continuous tuning of plasmonic nanoassembly’s structure is the key to manipulate their optical and catalytic properties. Herein, we report a strategy of using macroscopic deformation to continuously tune the structure and optical activity of massive plasmonic nanoassemblies that are embedded in elastic polymer matrix. Plasmonic gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) are assembled to nanochains (Au NCs) with defined length and further embedded into polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) matrix. The nanostructure and plasmonic properties of massive Au NCs in this Au NCs-PVP film can be simultaneously and continuously tuned, simply by reversible mechanical deformation of this elastic film. In this way, the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement factor of this film as a SERS substrate can be mechanically modulated in the range of 100 to 6.8 ×107. Meanwhile, the PVP matrix also serves as a selective diffusion barrier to eliminate the fluorescence interference of large biomolecules, which enables the Au NCs-PVP film as a convenient SERS substrate for quick and direct analysis of small molecule analytes in biological samples and food, avoiding the complicate and time-consuming sample pretreatment process.

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surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)plasmonic hotspotsnanoassemblygold nanoparticlesbioanalysis

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Nano Research
Volume 14 Issue 1,
January 2021
Pages 275-284
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-3085-1
Cite this article:
Yan X, Chen Q, Song Q, et al. Continuous mechanical tuning of plasmonic nanoassemblies for tunable and selective SERS platforms. Nano Research, 2021, 14(1): 275-284. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3085-1
Topics:
Gold nanoparticlesMolecular biologyPlasmonic nanoparticles Plasmonics Raman scatteringSubstratesSurface scattering

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Received: 14 May 2020
Revised: 07 August 2020
Accepted: 02 September 2020
Published: 05 January 2021
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