发明名称 |
Three-dimensional titania nano-fibrous architecture for molecular detection by Raman spectroscopy |
摘要 |
Disclosed herein is an optical molecular sensor, as well as methods and uses for such sensors in optical and medical devices. The sensor is based on traditionally inactive, limited or a combination thereof, materials that are regarded as such within surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The disclosed invention essentially includes the said material or materials as the substrate, micro-pattern features developed from the substrate, and a three-dimensional (3D) architecture of nanoparticle fibers that generally surround and envelop the micro-pattern features. The nanoparticle fibers are specifically designed to have a desirable 3D network depth and porosity, as well as nanoparticle average diameter, standard deviation, and nanoparticle separation (i.e. nanogap), as well as nanoparticle crystal phase composition, stoichiometry, and crystallinity. |
申请公布号 |
US9068890(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2015.06.30 |
申请号 |
US201314030740 |
申请日期 |
2013.09.18 |
申请人 |
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发明人 |
Maznichenko Dmitry;Venkatakrishnan Krishnan;Tan Bo |
分类号 |
G01J3/44 |
主分类号 |
G01J3/44 |
代理机构 |
Quarles & Brady, LLP |
代理人 |
Quarles & Brady, LLP |
主权项 |
1. A method of producing a titanium based Surface Enhance Raman Scattering (SERS) sensor, comprising:
providing a titanium substrate having a surface and producing an array of sensor locations in a predefined portion of the surface by irradiating the predefined portion of the surface in the presence of air with laser pulses having an intensity, a wavelength, a pulse duration, an effective irradiation time and a pulse repetition rate selected to produce, at each sensor location, a micro-pattern feature in the surface of the substrate and a self-supported web structure that generally surround and envelop the micro-pattern feature, said self-supported web structured being made of nanofibers each comprised of a plurality of titanium based nanoparticles aligned into said self-supported web structure, wherein said array of sensor locations exhibit SERS activity. |
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