| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2021 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Metal-Matrix Composites: Advances in Analysis, Measurement and Observations
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| Presentation Title |
Iron Oxide - Gold Composite Nanoparticles and Nanogap Junctions for Sensing Applications Using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering |
| Author(s) |
Simona E. Hunyadi Murph, Emily Searles |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Simona E. Hunyadi Murph |
| Abstract Scope |
Multifunctional iron oxide-gold composite nanostructures with tailored “hot spot” nano-gap junctions have been produced via a multi-seed-mediated approach and investigated for analyte detection. The resulting nano-composite material retain the properties of both individual components: (a) magnetic properties attributed to the iron oxide nanoparticles, and (b) plasmonic nanostructures ascribed to the gold nanospheres. The tunable nanogap “hot spot” junctions were evaluated for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement studies for a model reporter analyte, 4-mercaptophenol. Surface enhanced Raman scattering studies shows a three times enhancement effect for composite gold-iron oxide nanoparticles when compared with gold nanostructures. These enhancements are attributed to the presence of the “hot spot” junctions and nanogaps obtained from both: (a) multi-seed mediated approach that generates larger decoration of iron oxide with plasmonic nanoparticles and (b) aggregated assemblies formed due to the key magnetic iron oxide nanostructures. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |