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Vol. 8 No. 4 (2016)

Rapid Seedless Synthesis of Gold Nanoplates with Microscaled Edge Length in a High Yield and Their Application in SERS

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-016-0092-6
Sheng Chen
Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of China
Pengyu Xu
Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of China
Yue Li
Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of China
Junfei Xue
Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of China
Song Han
Division of i-Lab & Key Laboratory for Nano-Bio Interface Research, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech & Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Weihui Ou
Division of i-Lab & Key Laboratory for Nano-Bio Interface Research, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech & Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Li Li
Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, People’s Republic of China
Weihai Ni
Division of i-Lab & Key Laboratory for Nano-Bio Interface Research, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech & Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Weihai Ni

whni2012@sinano.ac.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 8 No. 4 (2016), Article Number: 328-335

Abstract

We report a facile and reproducible approach toward rapid seedless synthesis of single crystalline gold nanoplates with edge length on the order of microns. The reaction is carried out by reducing gold ions with ascorbic acid in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB). Reaction temperature and molar ratio of CTAB/Au are critical for the formation of gold nanoplates in a high yield, which are, respectively, optimized to be 85 °C and 6. The highest yield that can be achieved is 60 % at the optimized condition. The synthesis to achieve the microscaled gold nanoplates can be finished in less than 1 h under proper reaction conditions. Therefore, the reported synthesis approach is a time- and cost-effective one. The gold nanoplates were further employed as the surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates and investigated individually. Interestingly, only those adsorbed with gold nanoparticles exhibit pronounced Raman signals of probe molecules, where a maximum enhancement factor of 1.7 × 107 was obtained. The obtained Raman enhancement can be ascribed to the plasmon coupling between the gold nanoplate and the nanoparticle adsorbed onto it.

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Gold nanoplates Seedless synthesis SERS CTAB
Chen, Sheng, Pengyu Xu, Yue Li, Junfei Xue, Song Han, Weihui Ou, Li Li, and Weihai Ni. 2016. “Rapid Seedless Synthesis of Gold Nanoplates With Microscaled Edge Length in a High Yield and Their Application in SERS”. Nano-Micro Letters 8 (4):328-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-016-0092-6.
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