Natural surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy （SERS） chips based on plants or insects have gained increased attention due to their facile characteristics and low costs. However, such chips remain a major challenge for...Natural surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy （SERS） chips based on plants or insects have gained increased attention due to their facile characteristics and low costs. However, such chips remain a major challenge for practical application because of poor reproducibility and stability as well as unavoidable damage to the surface structure during coating metal and uncontrolled dehydration. By using a simple wrinkling method, we develop a new route to fabricate a low-cost bionic SERS chip for practical detection. Inspired by the taro leaf, we fabricate a SERS chip with a super-hydrophobic and plasmonic micro/nano dual structure, and its structure parameters can be optimized. Compared with the natural taro-leaf SERS chip, our artificial chip exhibits Raman signals with an order of magnitude higher sensitivity （N 10-9 M） and enhancement factor （N 107） under the illumination of weak laser radiation, demonstrating that our SERS chip has great potential in biological detection. The excellent per- formances of our bionic SERS chip are attributed to a synergy of optimized micro-wrinkle and nano-nest, which is verified by experiment and simulation. We believe our bionic chip could be a promising candidate in practical application due to its merits such as simple fabricating process, optimizable structure, low cost, excellent homo- geneity, high sensitivity, and stability.展开更多
基金National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFA0200403)CAS Strategy Pilot Program(XDA 09020300)+1 种基金Eu-FP7 Project(247644)National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(10974037,61505038)
文摘Natural surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy （SERS） chips based on plants or insects have gained increased attention due to their facile characteristics and low costs. However, such chips remain a major challenge for practical application because of poor reproducibility and stability as well as unavoidable damage to the surface structure during coating metal and uncontrolled dehydration. By using a simple wrinkling method, we develop a new route to fabricate a low-cost bionic SERS chip for practical detection. Inspired by the taro leaf, we fabricate a SERS chip with a super-hydrophobic and plasmonic micro/nano dual structure, and its structure parameters can be optimized. Compared with the natural taro-leaf SERS chip, our artificial chip exhibits Raman signals with an order of magnitude higher sensitivity （N 10-9 M） and enhancement factor （N 107） under the illumination of weak laser radiation, demonstrating that our SERS chip has great potential in biological detection. The excellent per- formances of our bionic SERS chip are attributed to a synergy of optimized micro-wrinkle and nano-nest, which is verified by experiment and simulation. We believe our bionic chip could be a promising candidate in practical application due to its merits such as simple fabricating process, optimizable structure, low cost, excellent homo- geneity, high sensitivity, and stability.
