Journal
BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 165-171Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2014.02.052
Keywords
Core-shell nanoparticles; Sensor; SERS; Hot-spot; Penicilloic acid; Penicillin
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21275075, 21075066]
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20113234110001]
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Trace penicilloic acid allergen frequently leads to various fatal immune responses to many patients, but it is still a challenge to directly discriminate and detect its residue in penicillin by a chemosensing way. Here, we report that silver-coated gold nanoparticles (Au@Ag NPs) exhibit a structure-selective hot-spot Raman enhancement capability for direct identification and detection of trace penicilloic acid in penicillin. It has been demonstrated that penicilloic acid can very easily link Au@Ag NPs together by its two carboxyl groups, locating itself spontaneously at the interparticle of Au@Ag NPs to form strong Raman hot-spot. At the critical concentration inducing the nanoparticle aggregation, Raman-enhanced effect of penicilloic acid is 60,000 folds higher than that of penicillin. In particular, the selective Raman enhancement to the two carboxyl groups makes the peak of carboxyl group at C-6 of penicilloic acid appear as a new Raman signal due to the opening of beta-lactam ring of penicillin. The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanoparticle sensor reaches a sensitive limit lower than the prescribed 1.0 parts per thousand penicilloic acid residue in penicillin. The novel strategy to examine allergen is more rapid, convenient and inexpensive than the conventional separation-based assay methods. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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