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SUBMITTER: Chio WK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6614880 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chio Weng-I Katherine WK Peveler William J WJ Assaf Khaleel I KI Moorthy Suresh S Nau Werner M WM Parkin Ivan P IP Olivo Malini M Lee Tung-Chun TC
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces 20190423 25
We demonstrate that the reproducibility of sensors for nitroaromatics based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) can be significantly improved via a hierarchical aqueous self-assembly approach mediated by the multifunctional macrocyclic molecule cucurbit[7]uril (CB[7]). Our approach is enabled by the novel host-guest complexation between CB[7] and an explosive marker 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT). Binding studies are performed using experimental and computation techniques to quantify key bin ...[more]