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Bao YF, Zhu MY, Zhao XJ, Chen HX, Wang X, Ren B. Nanoscale chemical characterization of materials and interfaces by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Chem Soc Rev 2024. [PMID: 39229965 DOI: 10.1039/d4cs00588k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/05/2024]
Abstract
Materials and their interfaces are the core for the development of a large variety of fields, including catalysis, energy storage and conversion. In this case, tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), which combines scanning probe microscopy with plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, is a powerful technique that can simultaneously obtain the morphological information and chemical fingerprint of target samples at nanometer spatial resolution. It is an ideal tool for the nanoscale chemical characterization of materials and interfaces, correlating their structures with chemical performances. In this review, we begin with a brief introduction to the nanoscale characterization of materials and interfaces, followed by a detailed discussion on the recent theoretical understanding and technical improvements of TERS, including the origin of enhancement, TERS instruments, TERS tips and the application of algorithms in TERS. Subsequently, we list the key experimental issues that need to be addressed to conduct successful TERS measurements. Next, we focus on the recent progress of TERS in the study of various materials, especially the novel low-dimensional materials, and the progresses of TERS in studying different interfaces, including both solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces. Finally, we provide an outlook on the future developments of TERS in the study of materials and interfaces.
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Affiliation(s)
- Yi-Fan Bao
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen 361005, China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen 361005, China
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Cichos F, Xia T, Yang H, Zijlstra P. The ever-expanding optics of single-molecules and nanoparticles. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:010401. [PMID: 38949895 DOI: 10.1063/5.0221680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/03/2024] Open
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- F Cichos
- Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Institute for Immunology, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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Cadena A, Botka B, Pekker Á, Tschannen CD, Lombardo C, Novotny L, Khlobystov AN, Kamarás K. Molecular Encapsulation from the Liquid Phase and Graphene Nanoribbon Growth in Carbon Nanotubes. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:9752-9758. [PMID: 36223098 PMCID: PMC9589896 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Growing graphene nanoribbons from small organic molecules encapsulated in carbon nanotubes can result in products with uniform width and chirality. We propose a method based on encapsulation of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene from the liquid phase and subsequent annealing. This procedure results in graphene nanoribbons several tens of nanometers long. The presence of nanoribbons was proven by Raman spectra both on macroscopic samples and on the nanoscale by tip-enhanced Raman scattering and high-resolution transmission electron microscopic images.
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- Ana Cadena
- Institute
for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner
Research Centre for Physics, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
- Department
of Chemical and Environmental Process Engineering, Faculty of Chemical
Technology and Biotechnology, Budapest University
of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute
for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner
Research Centre for Physics, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute
for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner
Research Centre for Physics, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Photonics
Laboratory, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Institute
for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner
Research Centre for Physics, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
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Tschannen CD, Frimmer M, Vasconcelos TL, Shi L, Pichler T, Novotny L. Tip-Enhanced Stokes-Anti-Stokes Scattering from Carbyne. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:3260-3265. [PMID: 35417179 PMCID: PMC9052751 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Revised: 04/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Carbyne, a linear chain of carbon atoms, is the truly one-dimensional allotrope of carbon and the strongest known Raman scatterer. Here, we use tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) to further enhance the Raman response of a single carbyne chain confined inside a double-walled carbon nanotube. We observe an increase of the anti-Stokes scattering by a factor of 3290 and a 22-fold enhancement of the anti-Stokes/Stokes ratio relative to far-field measurements. The power dependence of the anti-Stokes/Stokes ratio under TERS conditions is indicative of coherent Stokes-anti-Stokes scattering mediated by an excited phonon. The role of resonance effects and laser-induced heating are discussed and potential opportunities are outlined.
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- Photonics
Laboratory, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Materials
Metrology Division, Instituto Nacional de
Metrologia Qualidade e Tecnologia (INMETRO), 25250-020 Duque
de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- State
Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Nanotechnology
Research Center, Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronic Materials
and Wearable Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, P.R. China
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- Faculty
of Physics, Universität Wien, 1090 Wien, Austria
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- Photonics
Laboratory, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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