Abstract
Microparticles composed of bicontinuous and ordered macropores are important in many applications. However, rational integration of ordered macropores into a single crystalline microparticle remains a challenge. Here, we report a method to prepare three-dimensionally ordered macroporous (3DOM) Ag7O8NO3 micropyramids via selectively cementing the colloidal crystal templates via an electrochemical method and their shape-preserving transformation into 3DOM Ag micropryamids formed by Ag nanoparticles via a chemical reduction process. The interconnected macropores facilitated the transportation and enrichment of the analyte molecules into the 3DOM Ag micropyramids. The dense Ag nanoparticles on the skeletons of the 3DOM Ag micropyramids provided strong electromagnetic fields. Taken together, a 3DOM Ag micropyramid as a kind of single-particle surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensing substrate demonstrated high SERS sensitivity and outstanding SERS signal reproducibility. We explored the application of 3DOM Ag micropyramids in SERS detection of biomolecules (e.g., adenosine, adenine, hemoglobin bovine, and lysozyme) and proved their potentials in distinguishing exosomes from tumor and non-tumor cells. The method can be extended to prepared 3DOM structures of other materials with promising applications in sensing, separation, and catalytic fields.
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