ArticleThe Analyst2024
A simple low-cost flexible plasmonic patch based on spiky gold nanostars for ultra-sensitive SERS sensing.
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- Plasmonic Hybrid Heterostructure Based on Reduced Graphene Oxide-Gold Nanostars Composite for Sensitive Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensing.Applied spectroscopy · 2025Article
- Flexible, and cost-effective 3D nano-cauliflower SERS substrate for antibiotics detection on curved surfaces.Mikrochimica acta · 2025Article
- Plasmonic Geometry-Induced Viscoelastic Biocomplex Formation with Optical Concealment, Liquid Slips, and Soundscapes in Bioassays.Analytical chemistry · 2025Article
- Curvature-Insensitive Transparent Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrate Based on Large-Area Ag Nanoparticle-Coated Wrinkled Polystyrene/Polydimethylsiloxane Film for Reliable In Situ Detection.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recently, transparent and flexible surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates have received great interest for direct point-of-care detection of analytes on irregular nonplanar surfaces. In this study, we proposed a simple cost-effective strategy to develop a flexible SERS patch utilizing multibranched sharp spiked gold nanostars (GNS) decorated on a commercially available adhesive Scotch Tape for achieving ultra-high SERS sensitivity. The experimental SERS measurements were correlated with theoretical finite element modeling (FEM), which indicates that the GNS having a 2.5 nm branch tip diameter (GNS-4) exhibits the strongest SERS enhancement. Using rhodamine 6G (R6G) as a model analyte, the SERS performance of the flexible SERS patch exhibited a minimum detection limit of R6G as low as 1 pM. The enhancement factor of the SERS patch with GNS-4 was calculated as 6.2 × 10
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