In situ synthesis of Au-shelled Ag nanoparticles on PDMS for flexible, long-life, and broad spectrum-sensitive SERS substrates

B Fortuni; T Inose; S Uezono; S Toyouchi; K Umemoto; S Sekine; Y Fujita; M Ricci; G Lu; A Masuhara; J A Hutchison; L Latterini; H Uji-I

doi:10.1039/c7cc05420c

In situ synthesis of Au-shelled Ag nanoparticles on PDMS for flexible, long-life, and broad spectrum-sensitive SERS substrates

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Oct 12;53(82):11298-11301. doi: 10.1039/c7cc05420c.

Authors

B Fortuni¹, T Inose, S Uezono, S Toyouchi, K Umemoto, S Sekine, Y Fujita, M Ricci, G Lu, A Masuhara, J A Hutchison, L Latterini, H Uji-I

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Division of Molecular Imaging and Photonics, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium. Betrice.Fortuni@kuleuven.be.

PMID: 28920592
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc05420c

Abstract

A simple and fast one-step fabrication method of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) film and their improvement as highly sensitive surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates via atomically thin Au coatings is demonstrated. The thin Au layer provides oxidation resistivity while maintaining the broad spectral range SERS sensitivity of Ag nanoparticles.