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Excellent surface enhanced Raman properties of titanate nanotube-dopamine-Ag triad through efficient substrate design and LSPR matching

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In this work, a novel triad nanocomposites containing trititanate nanotubes, Ag nanoparticles and dopamine were prepared and the SERS properties were measured experimentally. Control over the size and position of the Ag nanoparticles in the TiNT-dop-Ag system, along with the localised surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of the Ag particles matching the Raman excitation wavelength, gives a SERS enhancement greater than 6 orders of magnitude. Electromagnetic modelling was used to provide a theoretical basis for these results.

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Funding

This work was supported by Suzhou Institute of Industrial Technology Research Fund (Grant Nos. SGYKJ201705 and 2017kyqd010), Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University Research Development Fund and Key Programme Special Fund in XJTLU (KSF-E-02).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Graham Dawson, Yulia Pilyugina, Wentian Niu & Ruochen Liu

  2. Suzhou Vocational Institute of Industrial Technology, Suzhou, 215104, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaorong Cheng

  3. School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK

    Anthony Centeno

  4. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

    Anthony Centeno

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GD, XC and AC contributed to the conception and design of the study. FDTD calculations were performed by AC. Experiments were performed by WN, YP and RL. Manuscript was written by GD and AC and commented upon by all authors.

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Dawson, G., Cheng, X., Centeno, A. et al. Excellent surface enhanced Raman properties of titanate nanotube-dopamine-Ag triad through efficient substrate design and LSPR matching. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 21603–21610 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-06669-w

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