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Preparation of CuO Nanowires/Ag Composite Substrate and Study on SERS Activity

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In this paper, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates with high detection sensitivity were prepared by thermal oxidation, and magnetron sputtering and the SERS properties of these substrates were studied using methylene blue as probe molecule. The result showed that the SERS substrate has good enhancement effect (analytical enhancement factor ~ 107), stability, and reproducibility. The minimum detection limit for methylene blue can reach 10–9 M. The SERS intensity and the concentration has a linear dependence (R2 > 0.9). This suggests that the substrate has great potential in the detection of biological and chemical substances.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China (Grant numbers 2018A030313018) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant numbers 21619416).

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  1. Department of Electronic Engineering, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, People’s Republic of China

    Junqi Yang, Bingliang Chen, Jie Peng, Bo Huang, Wanling Deng & Zhi Luo

  2. Siyuan Laboratory, Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, People’s Republic of China

    Weiguang Xie

  3. Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, People’s Republic of China

    Weiguang Xie

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Junqi Yang, Bingliang Chen, and Zhi Luo. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Bingliang Chen, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Yang, J., Chen, B., Peng, J. et al. Preparation of CuO Nanowires/Ag Composite Substrate and Study on SERS Activity. Plasmonics 16, 1059–1070 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-020-01358-6

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