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MoS2 Nanodonuts for High-Sensitivity Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
Ghopry, Samar Ali Sadeghi, Seyed M. Berrie, Cindy L. Wu, Judy Z.
Ghopry, Samar Ali
Sadeghi, Seyed M.
Berrie, Cindy L.
Wu, Judy Z.
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Nanohybrids of graphene and two-dimensional (2D) layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) nanostructures can provide a promising substrate for extraordinary surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) due to the combined electromagnetic enhancement on TMD nanostructures via localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) and chemical enhancement on graphene. In these nanohybrid SERS substrates, the LSPR on TMD nanostructures is affected by the TMD morphology. Herein, we report the first successful growth of MoS2 nanodonuts (N-donuts) on graphene using a vapor transport process on graphene. Using Rhodamine 6G (R6G) as a probe, SERS spectra were compared on MoS2 N-donuts/graphene nanohybrids substrates. A remarkably high R6G SERS sensitivity up to 2 × 10−12 M has been obtained, which can be attributed to the more robust LSPR effect than in other TMD nanostructures such as nanodiscs as suggested by the finite-difference time-domain simulation. This result demonstrates that non-metallic TMD/graphene nanohybrids substrates can have SERS sensitivity up to one order of magnitude higher than that reported on the plasmonic metal nanostructures/2D materials SERS substrates, providing a promising scheme for high-sensitivity, low-cost applications for biosensing.
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2021-11-25
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TMD nanodonuts, Graphene, Nanohybrids, Biosensing, Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
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Ghopry, S.A.; Sadeghi, S.M.; Berrie, C.L.; Wu, J.Z. MoS2 Nanodonuts for High-Sensitivity Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. Biosensors 2021, 11, 477. https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11120477