SERS Resolving of the Significance of Acetate on the Enhanced Catalytic Activity of Nanozymes

Anal Chem. 2022 Dec 27;94(51):17930-17938. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03992. Epub 2022 Dec 12.

Abstract

Understanding the structure-activity correlation and reaction mechanism of the catalytic process in an acetic acid-sodium acetate (HAc-NaAc) buffer environment is crucial for the design of efficient nanozymes. Here, we first reported a lattice restructuration of Au-LaNiO3-δ nanofibers (NFs) after acidification with the HAc-NaAc buffer to show a significantly enhanced oxidase-like property. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculation confirm the direct evidence for the formation of specific enhanced intermediate O-O species after acidification, indicating that the insertion of the carboxyl group in the A-Au/LaNiO3-δ NFs plays crucial roles in both producing vacancies in HAc-NaAc solution from its dissociation during the catalytic process and the protection of the vacancies, which can be directly interacted with oxygen in the environment to produce O-O species, realizing the enhanced oxidation of substrate molecules. The insertion of the carboxyl group increased the oxidase-like catalytic activity by 2.38 times and the SERS activity by 5.27 times. This strategy offers a way to construct an efficient nanozyme-linked immunosorbent assay system for the diagnosis of cancer through the highly sensitive SERS identification of exosomes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acetates
  • Gold / chemistry
  • Metal Nanoparticles* / chemistry
  • Oxidoreductases
  • Spectrum Analysis, Raman / methods

Substances

  • Gold
  • Oxidoreductases
  • Acetates