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Direct Detection of Polystyrene Nanoplastics in Water Using High-sensitivity Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering with Ag Nanoarray Substrates

Researchers developed a fast, sensitive detection method using silver nanostructures and laser light scattering (surface-enhanced Raman scattering) to identify polystyrene nanoplastics in water at concentrations as low as 10 micrograms per milliliter, offering a practical tool for monitoring nanoplastic contamination in real-world water sources.

2025 Sensors and Materials
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Identification of polystyrene nanoplastics using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Researchers demonstrated for the first time that surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) using silver nanoparticles can identify polystyrene nanoplastics as small as 50 nm in real water samples, providing a rapid detection method that bypasses conventional sample preparation and could advance environmental monitoring of nanoplastics previously invisible to standard analytical techniques.

2020 Talanta 207 citations
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Identification of Trace Polystyrene Nanoplastics Down to 50 nm by the Hyphenated Method of Filtration and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Based on Silver Nanowire Membranes

Researchers developed a method combining silver nanowire membrane filtration with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to detect trace polystyrene nanoplastics down to 50 nm in water, addressing a critical gap in nanoplastic analytical techniques.

2022 Environmental Science & Technology 155 citations
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Efficient silver-based hybrid nano-assemblies for polystyrene nanoparticles SERS detection

Researchers built nanoscale silver-silicon hybrid platforms that can detect polystyrene nanoplastics using a technique called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. The platforms achieved high sensitivity with detection limits in the microgram-per-milliliter range. The technology offers a promising approach for identifying nanoscale plastic particles that are too small for conventional detection methods.

2025 Microchemical Journal 3 citations
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Quantification of trace polystyrene nanoplastics in aquatic environments using hybrid substrates of gold-loaded dendritic mesoporous silica and silver-decorated graphene nanosheets for surface-enhanced Raman scattering analysis

Researchers developed a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection platform using a hybrid gold-silica and silver-graphene substrate to detect polystyrene nanoplastics in water at concentrations as low as 0.1 μg/mL, achieving 91–109% recovery rates in real lake, ocean, and polluted ditch water samples.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials 1 citations
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Nanostructured Raman substrates for the sensitive detection of submicrometer-sized plastic pollutants in water

Researchers developed nanostar-dimer-embedded nanopore substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and showed they can detect submicron polystyrene microplastic particles as small as 0.4 micrometers at concentrations of 50 ppm within minutes and without sample pretreatment, offering a sensitive and rapid analytical tool for detecting the smallest plastic pollutants in water.

2020 Journal of Hazardous Materials 149 citations
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Development of a simple SERS substrate for the detection of pollutants and nanoplastics

Researchers fabricated silver- and gold-coated silicon SERS substrates and demonstrated their ability to detect nanoplastic particles as small as 50 nm by Raman mapping, achieving picomolar sensitivity for model compounds and showing strong potential for environmental monitoring of nanoplastics in food and water.

2025 Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 3 citations
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Detection of Sub-Micro- and Nanoplastic Particles on Gold Nanoparticle-Based Substrates through Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) Spectroscopy

Gold nanoparticle-based SERS substrates were used to detect sub-micro and nanoplastic particles including polystyrene, PET, and PVC, demonstrating that this technique can identify plastic particles below the size threshold of conventional Raman microscopy.

2021 Nanomaterials 96 citations
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Portable surface-enhanced Raman scattering platform for rapid identification of nanoplastics at single-particle level

Researchers developed a portable, gold-nanoparticle-coated paper substrate for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) that detects individual plastic particles down to 1 part per trillion, enabling rapid field identification of polystyrene and nylon nanoplastics released from food containers and teabags without laboratory equipment.

2025 Journal of Hazardous Materials 1 citations
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In situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for the detection of nanoplastics: A novel approach inspired by the aging of nanoplastics

Researchers developed a novel in-situ SERS (surface-enhanced Raman scattering) detection method for nanoplastics that exploits UV photoaging to generate silver nanoparticles directly on particle surfaces, enabling highly sensitive identification of polystyrene, PVC, and PET nanoplastics in real lake water samples at concentrations as low as 1 × 10⁻⁶ mg/mL.

2024 The Science of The Total Environment 14 citations
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Engineering Branched Au@Ag Nanostar Plasmonic Array for Coupling Electromagnetic Enhancement and SERS Trace Detection of Polystyrene in Aquatic Environments

Researchers engineered a branched gold-silver nanostar array as a surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate for detecting polystyrene micro- and nanoplastics in water. The hydrophobic sensor achieved sensitive detection of polystyrene particles at concentrations as low as 2.5 micrograms per milliliter with a nearly linear concentration-intensity relationship, and was successfully applied to environmental water samples including tap water, seawater, and soil water.

2023 Chemosensors 8 citations
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Breaking the Size Barrier: SERS-Based Ultrasensitive Detection and Quantification of Polystyrene Plastics in Real Water Samples

Researchers developed a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method capable of detecting and quantifying polystyrene plastic particles of various sizes — including nanoplastics — in real environmental water samples at ultrasensitive concentrations.

2025 Analytical Chemistry
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Detecting polystyrene nanoplastics using filter paper-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Researchers developed a filter paper-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) method for detecting polystyrene nanoplastics, achieving a detection limit of 10 μg/mL using gold nanoparticles deposited on filter paper with only 50 μL sample volume.

2022 RSC Advances 31 citations
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Submicron- and nanoplastic detection at low micro- to nanogram concentrations using gold nanostar-based surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates

This study developed gold nanostar-based surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates capable of detecting submicron- and nanoplastic particles at very low concentrations (micro- to nanogram per liter), filling a gap in analytical methods for the smallest plastic particles in complex matrices such as food and marine waters.

2023 Environmental Science Nano 22 citations
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Honeycomb-like AgNPs@TiO2 array SERS sensor for the quantification of micro/nanoplastics in the environmental water samples

Researchers developed a honeycomb-like silver nanoparticle and titanium dioxide array sensor using surface-enhanced Raman scattering for detecting micro- and nanoplastics in environmental water. The sensor could identify polystyrene microplastics at concentrations as low as 100 micrograms per milliliter across tap water, lake water, soil water, and seawater, with recovery rates ranging from 97.6% to 109.7%.

2023 Talanta 56 citations
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Quantitative detecting low concentration polystyrene nanoplastics in aquatic environments via an Ag/Nb2CT (MXene) SERS substrate

Researchers fabricated an Ag nanoparticle-decorated MXene composite SERS substrate that detects polystyrene nanoplastics down to 10 mg/mL in lake water with high accuracy and recovery rates of 95–107%, and can distinguish nanoplastic types in mixtures using their Raman fingerprint spectra.

2024 Talanta 22 citations
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Recent advances in the functionalization of cellulose substrates for SERS sensors with improved performance

This review covered advances in functionalizing cellulose substrates for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensors, focusing on metal nanoparticle functionalization strategies that improve sensitivity and reproducibility. Cellulose-based SERS substrates are relevant for environmental microplastic detection given their sustainability and ease of functionalization.

2025 Frontiers in Nanotechnology 2 citations
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Quantitative and rapid detection of nanoplastics labeled by luminescent metal phenolic networks using surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Researchers developed a detection method using luminescent metal-phenolic network tags combined with portable surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) that can identify and quantify multiple nanoplastic types (polystyrene, PMMA, PLA) as small as 50 nm at concentrations as low as 0.1 µg/mL in field-deployable settings.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials 27 citations
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Rapid detection of nanoplastics down to 20 nm in water by surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy

Researchers developed a silver nanoparticle-based surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy method that can detect nanoplastics as small as 20 nanometers in water samples. By leveraging the natural aggregation between silver nanoparticles and plastic particles, they significantly amplified the detection signal without complex sample preparation. The technique offers a rapid and practical approach for identifying nanoplastic contamination in environmental water samples.

2023 Journal of Hazardous Materials 82 citations
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One-step detection of nanoplastics in aquatic environments using a portable SERS chessboard substrate

Researchers developed a portable surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection platform that captures and identifies nanoplastics from water samples in under one minute using silver nanoparticle-enhanced filter substrates, achieving a detection limit of 0.001 mg/mL for polystyrene nanoplastics across sizes from 30 to 1000 nm.

2024 Talanta 10 citations
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Size-dependent selectivity and quantification on detecting PS nanoplastics particles in a mixed solution with different diameters by using periodic Ag nanocavities SERS substrates with high sensitivity

Researchers developed silver nanocavity-based surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates that selectively detect and quantify polystyrene nanoplastics by size in mixed solutions, achieving a detection limit of 0.001 mg/mL and enabling simultaneous characterization of nanoplastics with different diameters using a microfluidic chip.

2024 Journal of Hazardous Materials 6 citations
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Sensors for Polystyrene Nanoplastics Detection in Water Samples

This review assessed recent advances in sensor and biosensor technologies for detecting polystyrene nanoplastics in complex aquatic samples. The authors identified optical, electrochemical, and surface-enhanced Raman approaches as the most promising strategies, while highlighting the ongoing challenges of matrix interference and low-concentration detection limits.

2025 International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials (IJNeaM)
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Detection of nanoplastics through low-cost SERS substrates, based on 3D islands of aggregated gold nanoparticles on aluminum foil, for wide ranging applications

Researchers developed a low-cost surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate by combining aluminium foil with 3D aggregates of gold nanoparticles stabilised by cucurbit[5]uril, enabling sensitive nanoplastic detection through plasmonic coupling. The substrate achieved trace-level analyte detection and offers a practical, scalable approach for nanoplastic identification across a wide range of environmental and analytical applications.

2024
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Meniscus‐Confined 3D Printed Nanoparticles: A Comparative Study of Quantitative SERS Detection of Microplastics

Detecting microplastics accurately in environmental samples is technically challenging, and this study introduces a new approach using 3D-printed silver and gold nanoparticle surfaces that amplify the light signal from microplastics when analyzed by Raman spectroscopy. Both types of printed substrates could detect plastic particles at concentrations as low as 0.3–1.2 micrograms per milliliter, with high reproducibility across dozens of repeated measurements. This technology could make routine, sensitive microplastic monitoring faster and more practical for environmental agencies and researchers.

2026 ChemistrySelect