123rd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Material Chemistry
Room No. Exhibition Hall 2
Time 4월 19일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code MAT.P-445
Subject Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy at Nanogap between Au Nanoparticles Separated by 2D hexagonal Boron Nitride
Authors Jong-Guk Ahn, Hyunseob Lim*
Department of Chemistry, Chonnam National University, Korea
Abstract

The controlled formation of hot spot formed at nanogap between metal nanoparticles in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), since it can enhance the Raman signal of target molecule dramatically. Therefore, various methods have been attempted to produce the nanogap, and several approaches even enable the single molecule level detection by SERS. Nevertheless, the precise control of nanogap is not only technically difficult, but also the reproducibility is not good. In addition, the most of approaches are not appropriate for practical applications. Herein, we present a new approach to produce nanogaps between Au nanoparticles (Au NPs) separated with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) by making a Au NPs/h-BN/Au NPs heterostructure. In previous study, we have demonstrated that h-BN can be a good wrapping layer for SERS nanoparticle, which is used as a two-dimensional insulator material. The Au NPs/h-BN/Au NPs heterostructure can be manufactured by introducing additional Au NPs onto h-BN/Au NP substrate. The theoretical simulation has been carried out by using Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method to visualize the electromagnetic field amplification at Au NPs/h-BN/Au NPs nanogap, which reveals that the stronger electromagnetic field can be generated at the nanogap structure of AuNP/h-BN/AuNPs. We believe that our results provide the critical insight for the nanogap based SERS applications by using the heterostructures of two-dimensional insulators and metal nanoparticles.

E-mail jongguk.ahn@gmail.com