Development of nanofibrillated cellulose coated with gold nanoparticles for measurement of melamine by SERS

Published Date
July 2017, Volume 24, Issue 7, pp 2801–2811

Author

• Ziyi Xiong
• Xiaowei Chen
• Polly Liou
• Mengshi LinEmail author

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Original Paper

First Online: 

22 April 2017

DOI: 10.1007/s10570-017-1297-7

Cite this article as:

Xiong, Z., Chen, X., Liou, P. et al. Cellulose (2017) 24: 2801. doi:10.1007/s10570-017-1297-7

Abstract

The objective of this study was to develop nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC)-based substrate for rapid detection of melamine in milk by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). NFC were served as a highly porous platform to load with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), which can be used as a flexible SERS substrate with nanoscale roughness to generate strong electromagnetic field in SERS measurement. The NFC/AuNP substrate was characterized by UV–Vis spectroscopy and electron microscopy. Milk samples contaminated by different concentrations of melamine were measured by SERS coupled with NFC/AuNP substrate. The spectral data analysis was conducted by multivariate statistical analysis [i.e. partial least squares (PLS)]. Satisfactory PLS result for quantification of melamine in milk was obtained (R = 0.9464). The detection limit for melamine extracted from liquid milk by SERS is 1 ppm, which meets the World Health Organization’s requirement of melamine in liquid milk. These results demonstrate that NFC/AuNP substrate has improved homogeneity and can be used in SERS analysis for food safety applications.


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