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SERS scaffold based on silver nanoparticles with multi-ingredient heavy metal ligands for the determination of Mn(II)

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Heavy metal ions are difficult to determine directly by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) due to the lack of Raman characteristic peaks for heavy metal. Herein, a SERS platform was promoted for the determination of divalent manganese ion (Mn2+) with the properties of cost-effectiveness and simplicity. The SERS platform was constructed into a hybrid system of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), 6-mercaptonicotinic acid (MNA), and melamine (MA). The likely principle of the SERS analysis platform for Mn2+ is that 6-mercaptonic acid cooperates with melamine to combine manganese ions to cause the aggregation of silver nanoparticles, resulting in the rapid enhancement of Raman characteristic peak signals of 6-mercaptonic acid. The established SERS platform for the Mn2+ determination obtained good linearity in the range of Mn2+ concentration of 1.0 × 10−5–1.0 × 10−4 mol/L with a limit of detection (LOD) of 4.0 × 10−6 mol/L.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (Grant Number 2108085ME184), the Collaborative Innovation Project of Anhui Provincial Department of Education (Grant Number GXXT-2021–057), and the Doctoral Scientific Research Startup Foundation of Anhui Jianzhu University (Grant Number 2020QDZ36).

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    Qinyu Chen, Jianshe Tang, Hao Li, Zhubin Chen & Li Xiang

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  3. Anhui Academy of Environmental Science, Hefei, 230071, China

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Chen, Q., Tang, J., Huang, Z. et al. SERS scaffold based on silver nanoparticles with multi-ingredient heavy metal ligands for the determination of Mn(II). Colloid Polym Sci 301, 949–956 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-023-05116-y

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