Preparation and surface modification of noble metal nanoparticles with tunable optical properties for SERS applications

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Metal nanostructures exhibit a wide variety of interesting physical and chemical properties, which can be tailored by altering their size, morphology, composition, and environment. Gold and silver nanostructures have received considerable attention for many decades because of their widespread use in applications such as catalysis, photonics, electronics, optoelectronics, information storage, chemical and biological sensing, surface plasmon resonance and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection. This thesis is composed of three main parts about the synthesis, characterization and SERS applications of shape-controlled and surface modified noble metal nanoparticles. The first part is related to a simple synthesis of shape controlled solid gold, hollow gold, silver, gold-silver core-shell, hollow gold-silver double-shell nanoparticles by applying aqueous solution chemistry. Nanoparticles obtained were used for SERS detection of dye molecules like brilliant cresyl blue (BCB) and crystal violet (CV) in aqueous system. v The second part involves the synthesis of surface modified silver nanoparticles for the detection of dopamine (DA) molecules. Determination of a dopamine molecule attached to a iron-nitrilotriaceticacid modified silver (Ag-Fe(NTA)) nanoparticles by using surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) was achieved. The Ag-Fe (NTA) substrate provided reproducibility and excellent sensitivity. Experimental results showed that DA was detected quickly and accurately without any pretreatment in nM levels with excellent discrimination against ascorbic acid (AA) (which was among the lowest value reported in direct SERS detection of DA). In the third part, a lanthanide series ion (Eu3+) containing silver nanoparticle was prepared for constructing a molecular recognition SERS substrate for the first time. The procedure reported herein, provides a simple way of achieving reproducible and sensitive SERS spectroscopy for organophosphates (OPP) detection. The sensing of the target species was confirmed by the appearance of an intense SERS signal of the methyl phosphonic acid (MPA), a model compound for nonvolatile organophosphate nerve agents, which bound to the surface of the Ag-Eu3+ nanostructure. The simplicity and low cost of the overall process makes this procedure a potential candidate for analytical control processes of nerve agents.

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Nanoparticles., Nanostructured materials.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/21131

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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M. Kaya, “Preparation and surface modification of noble metal nanoparticles with tunable optical properties for SERS applications,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2011.