Benzotriazole in trap water is a potentially danger for
human health,
and its rapid and real-time monitoring is thus very desirable. Here,
a flexible SERS sensing platform was fabricated on Ti plate utilizing
poly diallyldimethylammonium chloride, Ag nanoparticles, Ti3C2 nanosheets, and poly(vinyl alcohol). Next, the SERS
effect for benzotriazole in water was systematically explored. Our
investigation shows that this SERS sensing platform is extremely sensitive
to benzotriazole in water. The limit of detection (LOD) is as low
as 0.01 nmol L–1. Besides, it also possesses excellent
repeatability (point-to-point RSD 6.8%) and reproducibility (batch-to-batch
RSD 6.2%), strong antijamming performance, good flexibility, and outstanding
mechanical stability and can respond rapidly to trace benzotriazole
in water. More intriguingly, this SERS sensing platform can reveal
high sensitivity for trace benzotriazole in tap water, with a minimal
detection limit of 0.1 nmol L–1. Sensitive qualitative
analysis as well as quantitative detection can be achieved in the
range of 10–4–10–10 mol
L–1, demonstrating that it may be a powerful tool
in the online monitoring of trace benzotriazole in tap water. Taken
together, our investigation might open up an avenue in designing MXene-based
SERS substrates for real-time detecting trace benzotriazole in tap
water.