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Fabrication of silver-coated PET track-etched membrane as SERS platform for detection of acetaminophen

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In this study, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were immobilized on the surface of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) membrane using diethylenetriamine (DETA) as a chemical linker. The molecule of DETA was attached to the surface of PET via an amide bond following scission of the polyester ester bond on the PET surface. The AgNPs were immobilized on the surface of diethylenetriamine-modified PET membrane via a silver-nitrogen covalent bond. The silver-coated, DETA-modified and unmodified PET membranes were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), ulltraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV–Vis), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results showed that the size of AgNPs also increased with time of immobilization. The percentage of elemental silver also increased with increase in time of immobilization of AgNPs on the surface of DETA-modified PET membrane. The AgNP-coated PET membrane was used as SERS platform to detect acetaminophen in water. The SERS results showed that acetaminophen molecules could be detected with high Raman scattering intensity arising from adsorption of acetaminophen molecules on the silver nanoparticles of the SERS platform.

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Abbreviations

SERS:

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

AgNPs:

Silver nanoparticles

PET:

Polyethylene terephthalate

DETA:

Diethylenetriamine

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The authors are grateful to Environmental and Nano Sciences Research Group of the Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, for the academic and research platform.

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The research leading to these results received funding from Water Research Commission (WRC), South Africa, under Grant Agreement Number K5/2521, and from the Flerov Laboratory for Nuclear Research of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia.

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  1. Environmental and Nano Sciences Group, Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, Robert Sobukwe Road, Bellville, 7535, Republic of South Africa

    George Michael Ndilowe, Chris Ademola Bode-Aluko, Deborah Chimponda & Leslie Petrik

  2. Flerov Laboratories of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia, 141980

    Olga Kristavchuk, Iurii Kochnev & Alexander Nechaev

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Highlights

• DETA was immobilized on PET track-etched membrane to serves as linker for silver nanoparticles.

• Silver nanoparticles were immobilized on DETA functionalized PET track-etched membrane to produce SERS membrane.

• SERS membrane was used to detect acetaminophen using Raman spectroscopy.

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Ndilowe, G.M., Bode-Aluko, C.A., Chimponda, D. et al. Fabrication of silver-coated PET track-etched membrane as SERS platform for detection of acetaminophen. Colloid Polym Sci 299, 1729–1741 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-021-04900-y

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