Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 39, Issue 7, 0716001(2019)

Fractal Study and SERS Effect of Silver Nanowires with High Surface Roughness

Hengze Jiang, Dapeng Xu*, Weigang Kang, Yifan Zhang, and Jian Chen
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  • School of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Xi'an Technological University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, China
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    Herein, silver nanowires with high surface roughness are prepared via vacuum thermal evaporation and a solid-state ionics method. The nanowires are assembled into silver conductor RbAg4I5 films under the imposed current intensity, obtaining surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates with highly uniform, well ordered, and high-repeatability. The surface enhanced Raman characteristics of the silver-nanowire substrates with high surface roughness are detected using Rhodamine 6G (R6G) probe molecules in aqueous solution. The experimental results show that the prepared silver nanowires are branch-shaped and orderly arranged in the macro and micro structures, respectively; the fractal dimension of the silver nanostructure is 1.59. The method detects molar R6G concentration as low as 10 -17 mol/L when the silver nanowires are used as SERS substrates. The prepared silver nanowires with orderly dense arrangement and high surface roughness confirm its potential applicability in environmental sciences and other fields.

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    Hengze Jiang, Dapeng Xu, Weigang Kang, Yifan Zhang, Jian Chen. Fractal Study and SERS Effect of Silver Nanowires with High Surface Roughness[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2019, 39(7): 0716001

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    Paper Information

    Category: Materials

    Received: Jan. 18, 2019

    Accepted: Mar. 21, 2019

    Published Online: Jul. 16, 2019

    The Author Email: Xu Dapeng (badi56441071@sina.com)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS201939.0716001

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