Metallic and plasmonic MoO2 monocrystalline ultrathin mesoporous nanosheets for highly sensitive and stable surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Structure and size control are always considered as effective routes to enhance sensitive performance. Different from common polycrystalline porous nanosheets, herein, the general synthesis of monocrystalline ultrathin porous nanosheets (MUPNSs) by a facile decompressing decomposition (DPD) route is reported. Accompanied with the properties inherited from MUPNSs, i.e., high adsorption and strong plasma resonance, these MoO2 MUPNSs presented high sensitive activity as a surface enhanced Raman spectrum (SERS) substrate. The SERS sensitivity of MoO2 MUPNSs was about 1000 times higher than MoO2 polycrystalline ultrathin porous nanosheets (PUPNSs).