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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 23, Pages 5564-5570Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01504
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- Agilent Technologies
- AE Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California
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The multiplexing capabilities and sensitivity of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy nanoparticles depend strongly on the choice of Raman reporter molecules. By studying four types of SERS NPs with different Raman reporters attached, improved sensitivity for these novel nanoparticles could be predicted through a correlation between calculated and experimental enhancement factors. The choice of the best theoretical level could be based on the inner products of DFT-calculated and experimental Raman spectra.
Multiplexing capabilities and sensitivity of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) nanoparticles (NPs) are strongly dependent on the selected Raman reporter. These Raman-active molecules are responsible for giving each batch of SERS NPs its unique spectral fingerprint. Herein, we studied four types of SERS NPs, namely, AuNPs labeled with trans-1,2-bis(4-pyridyl)ethylene (BPE), 4,4'-bis(mercaptomethyl)biphenyl (BMMBP), 5-(4-pyridyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thiol (PODT), and 5-(4-pyridyl)-1H-1,2,4-triazole-3-thiol (PTT), and demonstrated that the best level of theory could be chosen based on inner products of DFT-calculated and experimental Raman spectra. We also calculated the theoretical spectra of these Raman reporters bound to Au-20 clusters to interrogate how SERS enhancement would affect their spectral fingerprint. Importantly, we found a correlation between B3LYP-D3 calculated and experimental enhancement factors, which opens up an avenue toward predicting which Raman reporters could offer improved sensitivity. We observed 0.5 and 3 fM limits of detection for BMMBP- and PTT-labeled 60 nm AuNPs, respectively.
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