Top

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Published in:

01-05-2013 | Brief Communication

Surface-enhanced Raman effect in hybrid metal–semiconductor nanoparticle assemblies

Authors: Vanni Lughi, Alois Bonifacio, Matteo Barbone, Lucia Marsich, Valter Sergo

Published in: Journal of Nanoparticle Research | Issue 5/2013

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config

AI-assisted search

Off

Abstract

Hybrid metal–semiconductor nanoparticles consisting of silver nanoparticle cores (AgNPs) coated with a layer of CdSe quantum dots (QDs) have been studied by Raman spectroscopy. The hybrid nanoparticles were prepared via electrostatic interaction by mixing aqueous suspensions of QDs and AgNPs, where opposite charges on the AgNPs and QDs surfaces were induced by opportunely selected capping agents. Assemblies of such hybrid nanoparticles show an increased intensity of the Raman spectrum of up to 500 times, when compared to that of the sole QDs. This enhancement is attributed to the SERS effect (Surface-enhanced Raman scattering). Such enhancement of the Raman modes suggests several opportunities for further research, both in imaging and sensing applications.

previous article Catalytic growth of carbon nanofibers on Cr nanoparticles on a carbon substrate: adsorbents for organic dyes in water

next article Quasi-critical fluctuations: a novel state of matter?

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Available only for authorised users

Aldana J, Wang YA, Peng X (2001) Photochemical instability of CdSe nanocrystals coated by hydrophilic thiols. J Am Chem Soc 123:8844–8850. doi:10.1021/ja016424q CrossRef

Atwater HA, Polman A (2010) Plasmonics for improved photovoltaic devices. Nat Mater 9:205–213. doi:10.1038/nmat2629 CrossRef

Brown MD, Suteewong T, Kumar RSS et al (2011) Plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cells using core-shell metal-insulator nanoparticles. Nano Lett 11:438–445. doi:10.1021/nl1031106 CrossRef

Chursanova MV, Dzhagan VM, Yukhymchuk VO et al (2009) Nanostructured silver substrates with stable and universal SERS properties: application to organic molecules and semiconductor nanoparticles. Nanoscale Res Lett 5:403–409. doi:10.1007/s11671-009-9496-2 CrossRef

Dzhagan VM, Lokteva I, Valakh MY et al (2009) Spectral features above LO phonon frequency in resonant Raman scattering spectra of small CdSe nanoparticles. J Appl Phys 106:084318. doi:10.1063/1.3248357 CrossRef

Faulds K, Littleford RE, Graham D et al (2004) Comparison of surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering from unaggregated and aggregated nanoparticles. Anal Chem 76:592–598. doi:10.1021/ac035053o CrossRef

Gouadec G, Colomban P (2007) Raman spectroscopy of nanomaterials: how spectra relate to disorder, particle size and mechanical properties. Prog Cryst Growth Charact Mater 53:1–56. doi:10.1016/j.pcrysgrow.2007.01.001 CrossRef

Han XX, Zhao B, Ozaki Y (2009) Surface-enhanced Raman scattering for protein detection. Anal Bioanal Chem 394:1719–1727. doi:10.1007/s00216-009-2702-3 CrossRef

Haridas M, Tripathi LN, Basu JK (2011) Photoluminescence enhancement and quenching in metal-semiconductor quantum dot hybrid arrays. Appl Phys Lett 98:063305. doi:10.1063/1.3553766 CrossRef

Hugall JT, Baumberg JJ, Mahajan S (2009) Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of CdSe quantum dots on nanostructured plasmonic surfaces. Appl Phys Lett 95:141111. doi:10.1063/1.3243982 CrossRef

Kawai M, Yamamoto A, Matsuura N, Kanemitsu Y (2008) Energy transfer in mixed CdSe and Au nanoparticle monolayers studied by simultaneous photoluminescence and Raman spectral measurements. Phys Rev B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.78.153308

Khanal BP, Pandey A, Li L et al (2012) Generalized synthesis of hybrid metal-semiconductor nanostructures tunable from the visible to the infrared. ACS Nano 6:3832–3840. doi:10.1021/nn204932m CrossRef

Kolny J, Kornowski A, Weller H (2002) Self-organization of cadmium sulfide and gold nanoparticles by electrostatic interaction. Nano Lett 2:361–364. doi:10.1021/nl0156843 CrossRef

Kumar A, Chaudhary V (2007) Optical and photophysical properties of Ag/CdS nanocomposites—an analysis of relaxation kinetics of the charge carriers. J Photochem Photobiol, A 189:272–279. doi:10.1016/j.jphotochem.2007.02.013 CrossRef

Lilly GD, Lee J, Kotov N a (2010) “Cloud” assemblies: quantum dots form electrostatically bound dynamic nebulae around large gold nanoparticles. Phys Chem Chem Phys 12:11878–11884. doi:10.1039/c0cp00186d CrossRef

Lu L, Xu X-L, Liang W-T, Lu H-F (2007) Raman analysis of CdSe/CdS core-shell quantum dots with different CdS shell thickness. J Phys: Condens Matter 19:406221. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/19/40/406221 CrossRef

Mandal S, Bonifacio A, Zanuttin F et al (2010) Synthesis and multidisciplinary characterization of polyelectrolyte multilayer-coated nanogold with improved stability toward aggregation. Colloid Polym Sci 289:269–280. doi:10.1007/s00396-010-2343-2 CrossRef

Marsich L, Bonifacio A, Mandal S et al (2012) Poly-l-lysine-coated silver nanoparticles as positively charged substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Langmuir 28:13166–13171. doi:10.1021/la302383r CrossRef

Milekhin a G, Sveshnikova LL, Duda T a et al (2009) Surface enhanced Raman scattering by CdS quantum dots. JETP Lett 88:799–801. doi:10.1134/S0021364008240053 CrossRef

Milekhin AG, Yeryukov N a, Sveshnikova LL et al (2012) Raman scattering for probing semiconductor nanocrystal arrays with a low areal density. J Phys Chem C 116:17164–17168. doi:10.1021/jp210720v CrossRef

Neto ESF, Dantas NO, Da Silva SW et al (2010) Confirming the lattice contraction in CdSe nanocrystals grown in a glass matrix by Raman scattering. J Raman Spectrosc 41:1302–1305. doi:10.1002/jrs.2565 CrossRef

Noginov MA, Zhu G, Belgrave AM et al (2009) Demonstration of a spaser-based nanolaser. Nature 460:1110–1112. doi:10.1038/nature08318 CrossRef

Roca E, Trallero-Giner C, Cardona M (1994) Polar optical vibrational modes in quantum dots. Phys Rev B 49:13704–13711. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.49.13704 CrossRef

Rodriguez-Lorenzo L, Fabris L, Alvarez-Puebla RA (2012) Multiplex optical sensing with surface-enhanced Raman scattering: a critical review. Anal Chim Acta 745:10–23. doi:10.1016/j.aca.2012.08.003 CrossRef

Shan G, Xu L, Wang G, Liu Y (2007) Enhanced Raman scattering of ZnO quantum dots on silver colloids. J Phys Chem C 111:3290–3293. doi:10.1021/jp066070v CrossRef

Sharma B, Frontiera RR, Henry A-I et al (2012) SERS: materials, applications, and the future—review article. Mater Today 15:16–25CrossRef

Song J-H, Atay T, Shi S et al (2005) Large enhancement of fluorescence efficiency from CdSe/ZnS quantum dots induced by resonant coupling to spatially controlled surface plasmons. Nano Lett 5:1557–1561. doi:10.1021/nl050813r CrossRef

Sousa F, Mandal S, Garrovo C et al (2010) Functionalized gold nanoparticles: a detailed in vivo multimodal microscopic brain distribution study. Nanoscale 2:2826–2834. doi:10.1039/c0nr00345j CrossRef

Sun Z, Wang C, Yang J et al (2008) Nanoparticle metal-semiconductor charge transfer in ZnO/PATP/Ag assemblies by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. J Phys Chem C 112:6093–6098. doi:10.1021/jp711240a CrossRef

Tanaka A, Onari S, Arai T (1992) Raman scattering from CdSe microcrystals embedded in a germanate glass matrix. Phys Rev B 45:6587–6592. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.45.6587 CrossRef

Thakur P, Joshi SS, Kapoor S, Mukherjee T (2009) Fluorescence behavior of cysteine-mediated Ag@CdS nanocolloids. Langmuir 25:6377–6384. doi:10.1021/la8042507 CrossRef

Venugopal R, Lin P-I, Liu C–C, Chen Y-T (2005) Surface-enhanced Raman scattering and polarized photoluminescence from catalytically grown CdSe nanobelts and sheets. J Am Chem Soc 127:11262–11268. doi:10.1021/ja044270j CrossRef

Wang Y, Li M, Jia H et al (2006) Optical properties of Ag/CdTe nanocomposite self-organized by electrostatic interaction. Spectrochim Acta Part A Mol Biomol Spectrosc 64:101–105. doi:10.1016/j.saa.2005.07.003 CrossRef

Wang Y, Ruan W, Zhang J et al (2009) Direct observation of surface-enhanced Raman scattering in ZnO nanocrystals. J Raman Spectrosc 40:1072–1077. doi:10.1002/jrs.2241 CrossRef

Yang D, Wang W, Chen Q et al (2008) Electrostatic assembles and optical properties of Au–CdTe QDs and Ag/Au–CdTe QDs. Physica E 40:3072–3077. doi:10.1016/j.physe.2008.04.003 CrossRef

Yu WW, Qu L, Guo W, Peng X (2003) Experimental determination of the extinction coefficient of CdTe, CdSe, and CdS nanocrystals. Chem Mater 15:2854–2860. doi:10.1021/cm034081k CrossRef

Zhang Y, Hong H, Myklejord DV, Cai W (2011) Molecular imaging with SERS-active nanoparticles. Small 7:3261–3269. doi:10.1002/smll.201100597 CrossRef

Title: Surface-enhanced Raman effect in hybrid metal–semiconductor nanoparticle assemblies
Authors: Vanni Lughi
Alois Bonifacio
Matteo Barbone
Lucia Marsich
Valter Sergo
Publication date: 01-05-2013
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Journal of Nanoparticle Research / Issue 5/2013
Print ISSN: 1388-0764
Electronic ISSN: 1572-896X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-013-1663-9

Springer Professional

Abstract

Please log in to get access to your license.

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Springer Professional "Technik"

Other articles of this Issue 5/2013

Fine scale characterization of surface/subsurface and nanosized debris particles on worn Cu–10 % Pb nanocomposites

Enhanced photocatalytic activity of bismuth-doped TiO2 nanotubes under direct sunlight irradiation for degradation of Rhodamine B dye

Growth of CuPd nanoalloys encapsulated in carbon-shell

Cobalt-doped nanohydroxyapatite: synthesis, characterization, antimicrobial and hemolytic studies

On the role of Pb0 atoms on the nucleation and growth of PbSe and PbTe nanoparticles

Radiolytic synthesis of carbon-supported PtRu nanoparticles using high-energy electron beam: effect of pH control on the PtRu mixing state and the methanol oxidation activity

Premium Partners