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Ag-coated nylon fabrics as flexible substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering swabbing applications

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A flexible surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate was prepared by vacuum evaporation of silver on the surface of woven nylon fabrics. SERS properties of the Ag-coated nylon fabrics varied as the thickness of silver coatings changed, relative to the morphologies and distribution of silver nanoparticles (NPs) on fiber. The SERS enhancement performance of Ag-coated nylon fabrics was evaluated by collecting Raman signals of different concentrations of p-aminothiophenol (PATP). The results suggested that the nylon fabrics coated with 10 nm thickness Ag NPs coatings possessed high SERS activity and its detection concentration for PATP is as low as 10−9 M. Furthermore, sensitive SERS signals with excellent reproducibility (Relative standard deviation = 8.25%) and stability (30 days) have been demonstrated. In addition, the SERS nylon fabrics have been applied to rapidly detect thiram pesticides on cucumber, which indicated a great potential for trace analysis.

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This work was supported by Important Research and Development Plan Project of Hebei Province (19211203D) and Innovation Center of Shijiazhuang for Chemical Fiber Technology (198190167A).

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  1. Key Lab of Science & Technology of Eco-textile, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China

    Airong Liu, Shuo Zhang, Shanyi Guang & Fengyan Ge

  2. School of Chemical Engineering, Shijiazhuang University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, 050035, China

    Juan Wang

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Liu, A., Zhang, S., Guang, S. et al. Ag-coated nylon fabrics as flexible substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering swabbing applications. Journal of Materials Research 35, 1271–1278 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2020.103

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