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Nano Research 2019, 12(6): 1375-1379 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2325-8
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Vacuum-tuned-atmosphere induced assembly of Au@Ag core/shell nanocubes into multi-dimensional superstructures and the ultrasensitive IAPP proteins SERS detection

Show Author's Information Meng Xu1,  Guopeng Tu1,  Muwei Ji2,3,  Xiaodong Wan1,  Jiajia Liu1,  Jia Liu1,  Hongpan Rong1,  Yanlian Yang4,  Chen Wang4,  Jiatao Zhang1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications,Experimental Center of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing,100081,China;
Institute of Low-dimensional Materials Genome Initiative,College of chemistry and environmental engineering, Shenzhen University, Guangdong,Shenzhen,518060,China;
Graduate School at Shenzhen,Tsinghua University,Shenzhen,518055,China;
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST),Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100190,China;
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self-assembly, superstructure, Au@Ag core/shell nanocubes (NCs), surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection, islet amyloid-like polypeptide
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Utilizing vacuum-tuned-atmosphere induced dip coating method, we achieve the cross-dimensional macroscopic diverse self-assemblies by using one building block with one chemical functionality. Coordinated modulating the vacuum degree, colloid concentration and evaporation atmosphere, Au@Ag core/shell nanocubes (NCs) can controllably assemble into diverse multi-dimensional superstructures. Under 0.08 MPa, we obtained the two-dimensional (2D) stepped superstructures with continuously tunable step width. In addition, we generated a series of tailorable nanoscale-roughened 2D Au@Ag NCs superstructures at 0.04 MPa, which exhibited the label-free ultrasensitive SERS detection for the different mutants of IAPP8-37 proteins. Under 0.01 MPa, we obtained the cross-dimensional tailorable Au@Ag NCs assemblies from random to macroscale 2D and three-dimensional (3D) densest superstructures by adjusting the capping ligand-environmental molecule interactions. This is a flexible method to generate as-prepared Au@Ag core/shell NCs into well-defined macroscopic diverse superstructures and to promote the exploitation into biological applications.


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Vacuum-tuned-atmosphere induced assembly of Au@Ag core/shell nanocubes into multi-dimensional superstructures and the ultrasensitive IAPP proteins SERS detection

Show Author's information Meng Xu1, Guopeng Tu1, Muwei Ji2,3, Xiaodong Wan1, Jiajia Liu1, Jia Liu1, Hongpan Rong1, Yanlian Yang4, Chen Wang4, Jiatao Zhang1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications,Experimental Center of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology,Beijing,100081,China;
Institute of Low-dimensional Materials Genome Initiative,College of chemistry and environmental engineering, Shenzhen University, Guangdong,Shenzhen,518060,China;
Graduate School at Shenzhen,Tsinghua University,Shenzhen,518055,China;
National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST),Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100190,China;

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Utilizing vacuum-tuned-atmosphere induced dip coating method, we achieve the cross-dimensional macroscopic diverse self-assemblies by using one building block with one chemical functionality. Coordinated modulating the vacuum degree, colloid concentration and evaporation atmosphere, Au@Ag core/shell nanocubes (NCs) can controllably assemble into diverse multi-dimensional superstructures. Under 0.08 MPa, we obtained the two-dimensional (2D) stepped superstructures with continuously tunable step width. In addition, we generated a series of tailorable nanoscale-roughened 2D Au@Ag NCs superstructures at 0.04 MPa, which exhibited the label-free ultrasensitive SERS detection for the different mutants of IAPP8-37 proteins. Under 0.01 MPa, we obtained the cross-dimensional tailorable Au@Ag NCs assemblies from random to macroscale 2D and three-dimensional (3D) densest superstructures by adjusting the capping ligand-environmental molecule interactions. This is a flexible method to generate as-prepared Au@Ag core/shell NCs into well-defined macroscopic diverse superstructures and to promote the exploitation into biological applications.

Keywords: self-assembly, superstructure, Au@Ag core/shell nanocubes (NCs), surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection, islet amyloid-like polypeptide

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Received: 30 November 2018
Revised: 17 January 2019
Accepted: 29 January 2019
Published: 29 May 2019
Issue date: June 2019

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51872030, 51631001, 21643003, 51702016, and 51501010) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Beijing Institute of Technology Research Fund Program for Young Scholars and ZDKT18-01 fund from State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology (Beijing Institute of Technology). We acknowledge critical and quantity of testing work supported by Beijing Zhongkebaice Technology Service Co., Ltd.

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