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Surfactant-free interfacial growth of graphdiyne hollow microspheres and the mechanistic origin of their SERS activity

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  • Lu Zhang

    (Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine)

  • Wencai Yi

    (Qufu Normal University)

  • Junfang Li

    (Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine)

  • Guoying Wei

    (China Jiliang University)

  • Guangcheng Xi

    (Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine)

  • Lanqun Mao

    (Beijing Normal University)

Abstract

As a two-dimensional carbon allotrope, graphdiyne possesses a direct band gap, excellent charge carrier mobility, and uniformly distributed pores. Here, a surfactant-free growth method is developed to efficiently synthesize graphdiyne hollow microspheres at liquid‒liquid interfaces with a self-supporting structure, which avoids the influence of surfactants on product properties. We demonstrate that pristine graphdiyne hollow microspheres, without any additional functionalization, show a strong surface-enhanced Raman scattering effect with an enhancement factor of 3.7 × 107 and a detection limit of 1 × 10−12 M for rhodamine 6 G, which is approximately 1000 times that of graphene. Experimental measurements and first-principles density functional theory simulations confirm the hypothesis that the surface-enhanced Raman scattering activity can be attributed to an efficiency interfacial charge transfer within the graphdiyne-molecule system.

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  • Lu Zhang & Wencai Yi & Junfang Li & Guoying Wei & Guangcheng Xi & Lanqun Mao, 2023. "Surfactant-free interfacial growth of graphdiyne hollow microspheres and the mechanistic origin of their SERS activity," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:14:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-023-42038-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42038-3
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