Abstract

We report a facile method to fabricate highly sensitive superhydrophobic Ag nanorods (AgNR) arrays based surface enhanced fluorescence spectroscopy (SEFS) substrates using glancing angle deposition technique at a substrate temperature of 133 K and then subsequent coating of heptadecafluoro-1-decanethiol (HDFT) molecules. The SEFS enhancement behaviour of these substrates was determined by using aqueous solution of Rhodamine 6G. The HDFT coated superhydrophobic AgNR arrays SEFS substrates exhibit more then 3-fold fluorescence signal enhancement than conventional AgNR films. These HDFT coated superhydrophobic AgNR SEFS substrates based sensors may find application for the purpose of trace analysis and biosensing.

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