Defect-Rich Monolayer MoS2 as a Universally Enhanced Substrate for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

Nanomaterials

Jingying Zheng¹  Xingshuang Zhang²  Guanchen Xu²  Dongwei Li²  Meng Gao²  Xiu Liang²  Shiyu Sun²  Ruihao Sun²  Guanliang Sun²  Dan Wang²  Hongyu Gong²  Yong Li² 

[1] College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China;Key Laboratory for High Strength Lightweight Metallic Materials of Shandong Province (HM), Advanced Materials Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250014, China;

关键词: MoS₂;    surface defects;    surface-enhanced Raman scattering;    photoinduced charge transfer;    metallic;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nano12060896

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Monolayer 2H-MoS₂ has been widely noticed as a typical transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). However, monolayer MoS₂ is limited to a narrow range of applications due to poor detection sensitivity caused by the combination of a lower density of states (DOS) near the Fermi energy level as well as a rich fluorescence background. Here, surfaced S and Mo atomic defects are fabricated on a monolayer MoS₂ with a perfect lattice. Defects exhibit metallic properties. The presence of defects enhances the interaction between MoS₂ and the detection molecule, and it increases the probability of photoinduced charge transfer (PICT), resulting in a significant improvement of Raman enhancement. Defect-containing monolayer MoS₂ enables the fluorescence signal of many dyes to be effectively burst, making the SERS spectrum clearer and making the limits of detection (LODs) below 10⁻⁸ M. In conclusion, metallic defect-containing monolayer MoS₂ becomes a promising and versatile substrate capable of detecting a wide range of dye molecules due to its abundant DOS and effective PICT resonance. In addition, the synergistic effect of surface defects and of the MoS₂ main body presents a new perspective for plasma-free SERS based on the chemical mechanism (CM), which provides promising theoretical support for other TMDC studies.

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