Article: Chemical Contribution to SERS Enhancement: An Experimental Study on a Series of Polymethine Dyes on Silver Nanoaggregates
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2016 Sept. 22, v. 120, no. 37
2016
Abstract: We investigate the chemical contribution to SERS on a series of polymethine dyes attached to silver nanoparticles in aqueous solution exploiting a total average enhancement level of 10⁷–10⁸. On top of uniform plasmonic and molecular resonance enhancement, ...
Abstract | We investigate the chemical contribution to SERS on a series of polymethine dyes attached to silver nanoparticles in aqueous solution exploiting a total average enhancement level of 10⁷–10⁸. On top of uniform plasmonic and molecular resonance enhancement, we obtain changes in SERS signal levels and particularly changes in relative scattering intensities for selected Raman lines in the SERS spectra of very similar polymethine dyes. This variation in chemical SERS enhancement within the dye series correlates with the generation of dye radicals of the same dyes on photographic silver halides reported in the literature, where the dye radicals were determined by ESR spectroscopy. The correlation between these two experimentally independent observables suggests transfer and/or exchange/sharing of electrons between the metal and the molecule as basic process for chemical SERS enhancement, where the efficiency of the process depends on the molecular structure. Despite that the main contribution in SERS is caused by plasmonic field enhancement, the chemical contribution to SERS can be a sensitive tool to extract information on interest for processes that rely on charge transfer between surfaces/nanostructures and molecules such as catalysis or spectral sensitization. |
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Keywords | aqueous solutions ; catalytic activity ; chemical structure ; dyes ; electrons ; free radicals ; halides ; nanosilver ; silver ; spectroscopy |
Language | English |
Dates of publication | 2016-0922 |
Size | p. 21076-21081. |
Publishing place | American Chemical Society |
Document type | Article |
ISSN | 1932-7455 |
DOI | 10.1021%2Facs.jpcc.6b03785 |
Database | NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA) |
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