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SERS Study of Histamine by Using Silver Film over Nanosphere Structure

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Optical properties of histamine and l-histidine have been analyzed by using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). A silver film over nanosphere (AgFON) structure with 120-nm-thick silver film on polystyrene nanospheres 1,000 nm in diameter is fabricated by nanosphere lithography to enhance the Raman signal excited at the laser wavelength of 532 nm. Normal Raman spectrum and the SERS spectrum of histamine and l-histidine were compared. Further, vibration modes of these molecules were calculated by using density functional method. In the SERS experiment, we were able to measure the Raman spectrum with a histamine concentration as less as 100 pM. This sensitivity is higher than that from high-performance liquid chromatography.

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Authors acknowledge financial support from the National Science Council of ROC under grant number NSC 100-2112-M-019-003-MY3 and National Research Program for the Department of Industrial Technology (DoIT) of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), Republic of China (99-EC-17-A-19-S1-163).

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  1. Institute of Optoelectronic Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, No. 2 Pei-Ning Rd., 202, Keelung, Taiwan

    Wen-Chi Lin, Tsong-Ru Tsai, Hsiang-Lin Huang & Hai-Pang Chiang

  2. Holistic Medical Device Development Center, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan

    Wen-Chi Lin

  3. Department of Food Sciences, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

    Chyuan Yuan Shiau

  4. Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hai-Pang Chiang

  5. Instrument Technology Research Center, National Applied Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Hai-Pang Chiang

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Lin, WC., Tsai, TR., Huang, HL. et al. SERS Study of Histamine by Using Silver Film over Nanosphere Structure. Plasmonics 7, 709–716 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-012-9362-4

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