Abstract
ABSTRACTA simple and sensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method for the detection of safranine T (ST) and Hg2+ using silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as substrate was developed. ST can absorb on the surface of AgNPs through electrostatic interaction, the electromagnetic effect combined with chemical adsorption effect give a notable Raman enhancement for ST. The presence of Hg2+ well decreased the absorbed ST molecules on AgNPs, leading to a significant decrease of SERS signals thus enabling to detect Hg2+. The determination conditions for SERS, including the amount of AgNPs, the concentration of NaCl, the concentration of HCl, the concentration of ST and the reaction time, were optimised. Under the optimised experimental conditions, good linear responses were obtained for ST and Hg2+ in the concentration ranges of 0.01–4.0 μmol L−1 (3.5–1403.4 ng mL−1) and 0.01–2.0 μmol L−1 (2.0–401.2 ng mL−1), the limit of detection were 3.0 nmol L−1 (1.1 ng mL−1) and 2.0 nmol L−1 (0.4 ng mL−1), respectively. The present method was subsequently applied to the determination of ST in tomato sauces and Hg2+ in environmental waters, the recoveries of ST and Hg2+ in spiked samples are 95.5–107.8% and 91.4–110.8 %, respectively.
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