• 文献标题:   Exploring Graphene Nanocolloids as Potential Substrates for the Enhancement of Raman Scattering
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SUN ST, ZHANG ZH, WU PY
  • 作者关键词:   graphene nanocolloid, surfaceenhanced raman scattering, probe molecule, photoinduced charge transfer, resonant excitation, desolvation, surface coupling
  • 出版物名称:   ACS APPLIED MATERIALS INTERFACES
  • ISSN:   1944-8244 EI 1944-8252
  • 通讯作者地址:   Fudan Univ
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1021/am400938z
  • 出版年:   2013

▎ 摘  要

Graphene, especially few-layer graphene solid film, has been found to strongly suppress fluorescence and enhance Raman signals of probe molecules. In this paper, we attempt to explore the possibility of using graphene nanocolloids as potential substrates for the enhancement of Raman scattering. Graphene nanocolloids chemically produced from the reduction of graphene oxide by sodium citrate are nearly all monolayers in solution and are also found to exhibit certain surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity to common aromatic probe molecules. Interestingly, largely different from few-layer graphene solid film, graphene nanocolloids show maximal SERS activity only when the probe molecules are at resonant laser excitation. According to our analysis, this phenomenon should arise from a combined effect of fluorescence quenching of graphene and a photoinduced charge transfer mechanism, in which the strong charge transfer accountsfor the main contribution from close coupling between graphenes and probe molecules photoinduced by resonant excitation as well as the desolvation of graphene sheets and probe molecules.