Evaluation of Colloids and Activation Agents for Determination of Melamine Using UV-SERS

in: Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2012)
Kämmer, Evelyn; Dörfer, Thomas; Csáki, Andrea; Schumacher, Wilm; Tarcea, Nicolae; Fritzsche, Wolfgang; Rösch, Petra; Schmitt, Michael; Popp, Jürgen; Da Costa Filho, Paulo Augusto
UV-SERS measurements offer a great potential for environmental or food (detection of food contaminats) analytics. Here, the UV-SERS enhancement potential of various kinds of metal colloids, such as Pd, Pt, Au, Ag, Au− Ag core−shell, and Ag−Au core−shell with different shapes and sizes, were studied using melamine as a test molecule. The influence of different activation (KF, KCl, KBr, K2SO4) agents onto the SERS activity of the nanomaterials was investigated, showing that the combination of a particular nanoparticle with a special activation agent is extremely crucial for the observed SERS enhancement. In particular, the size dependence of spherical nanoparticles of one particular metal on the activator has been exploited. By doing so, it could be shown that the SERS enhancement increases or decreases for increasing or decreasing size of a nanoparticle, respectively. Overall, the presented results demonstrate the necessity to adjust the nanoparticle size and the activation agent for different experiments in order to achieve the best possible UV-SERS results.

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