Self-assembled vertically aligned gold nanorod superlattices for ultra-high sensitive detection of molecules

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Amey Apte
Prashant Bhaskar
Raja Das
Smita Chaturvedi
Pankaj Poddar
Sulabha Kulkarni
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[1] Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER),Physical and Materials Chemistry Division
[2] CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory,Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR)
[3] Anusandhan Bhavan,undefined
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Nano Research | 2015年 / 8卷
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nanostructures; self-assemblies; superlattices; Raman spectroscopy; sensors;
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We show that self-assembled vertically aligned gold nanorod (VA-GNRs) superlattices can serve as probes or substrates for ultra-high sensitive detection of various molecules. d-glucose and 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) have been chosen as model systems due to their very low Raman cross-sections (5.6 × 10−30 cm2·molecule−1·sr−1 for d-glucose and 4.9 × 10−31 cm2·molecule−1·sr−1 for TNT) to show that the VA-GNR superlattice assembly offers as low as yoctomole sensitivity. Our experiment on mixed samples of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and d-glucose solutions demonstrate sensitivity for the latter, and the possible extension to real samples. Self-assembled superlattices of VA-GNRs were achieved on a silicon wafer by depositing a drop of solvent containing the GNRs and subsequent solvent evaporation in ambient conditions. An additional advantage of the VA-GNR monolayers is their extremely high reproducible morphology accompanied by ultrahigh sensitivity which will be useful in many fields where a very small amount of analyte is available. Moreover the assembly can be reused a number of times after removing the already present molecules. The method of obtaining VA-GNRs is simple, inexpensive and reproducible. With the help of simulations of monolayers and multilayers it has been shown that superlattices can achieve better sensitivity than monolayer assembly of VA-GNRs.
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