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Contents Vol 74(10)

Fabrication of Highly Ordered Ag/TiO2 Nanopore Array as a Self-Cleaning and Recycling SERS Substrate

Yibing Xie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4728-7136
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A School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China. Email: ybxie@seu.edu.cn

Australian Journal of Chemistry 74(10) 715-721 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH21142
Submitted: 21 June 2021  Accepted: 10 September 2021   Published: 30 September 2021

Abstract

Silver nanoparticles deposited on a titania nanopore array (Ag/TiO2 NPA) has been designed as a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate for sensitive and recycling application of organic molecule detection. A TiO2 NPA was fabricated by a surface oxidization reaction of a titanium sheet by a double anodization process. A Ag/TiO2 NPA was then formed by depositing silver nanoparticles onto the TiO2 NPA by a cycling chemical reduction deposition process. The Ag/TiO2 NPA has a uniform mono-layer dispersion of Ag nanoparticles with a size of 30–50 nm on TiO2 nanopores with a diameter of 100–110 nm. The Ag/TiO2 NPA SERS substrate could facilitate interfacial adsorption of Rhodamine 6G (R6G), which achieves a sensitive detection limit of 10−8 M R6G through SERS spectrum measurement. The Ag/TiO2 NPA SERS substrate achieves an analytical enhancement factor value of 2.6 × 105. The Ag/TiO2 NRA could promote the UV light-excited photocatalytic degradation reaction of R6G adsorbed on its surface which gives rise to a refreshed Ag/TiO2 NRA under UV irradiation for 60 min and accordingly behave as a self-cleaning and recycling SERS substrate. The Ag/TiO2 NPA exhibits a much higher R6G degradation reaction rate constant (0.05764 min−1) than the TiO2 NPA (0.02600 min−1), indicating its superior photocatalytic activity and self-cleaning activity. The refreshed Ag/TiO2 NPA was able to be recycled for the Raman detection of R6G, maintaining a high stability, reproducibility, and cyclability. The highly ordered Ag/TiO2 NPA with well controlled Ag nanoparticle dispersion and TiO2 nanopore shape could act as a suitable SERS substrate for recycling and self-cleaning application for stable and sensitive molecule detection.

Keywords: SERS substrate, Ag-TiO2, nanotube array, analytical enhancement factor, molecule detection, self-cleaning, recycling, photocatalytic degradation.


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