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Structural Transition-Induced Raman Enhancement in Bioinspired Diphenylalanine Peptide Nanotubes

[Image: see text] Semiconducting materials are increasingly proposed as alternatives to noble metal nanomaterials to enhance Raman scattering. We demonstrate that bioinspired semiconducting diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes annealed through a reported structural transition can support Raman detectio...

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Autores principales: Almohammed, Sawsan, Fularz, Agata, Kanoun, Mohammed Benali, Goumri-Said, Souraya, Aljaafari, Abdullah, Rodriguez, Brian J., Rice, James H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35254049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c22770
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Sumario:[Image: see text] Semiconducting materials are increasingly proposed as alternatives to noble metal nanomaterials to enhance Raman scattering. We demonstrate that bioinspired semiconducting diphenylalanine peptide nanotubes annealed through a reported structural transition can support Raman detection of 10(–7) M concentrations for a range of molecules including mononucleotides. The enhancement is attributed to the introduction of electronic states below the conduction band that facilitate charge transfer to the analyte molecule. These results show that organic semiconductor-based materials can serve as platforms for enhanced Raman scattering for chemical sensing. As the sensor is metal-free, the enhancement is achieved without the introduction of electromagnetic surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.