Using the chemical-microwave reduced procedure with H 2 O 2 , NaBH 4 , and citrate as reducer, a silver nanorod (AgNR)/reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheet composite (AgNR/rGO) was prepared in a solution with good stability. Upon addition of NaCl and molecular probe of rhodamine 6G (Rh6G), a stable and sensitive AgNR/rGO-aggregation (AgNR/rGOA) surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) nanosensor was fabricated for Rh6G that exhibited a strongest SERS peak at about 1505 cm −1 . The SERS peak intensity is linear to Rh6G concentration in the range of 1.0-600 nmol/L, with a detection limit of 0.2 nmol/L. Combined with the iodide SERS quenching effect on the molecular probe, a 8-1500 nmol/L iodine in solution was detected by this SERS nanosensor analytical platform, with satisfactory results.Keywords AgNR/rGO . Microwave preparation . Rhodamine 6G . SERS nanosensor . Iodine ion Recently, biochemical sensing technology has made significant progress due to a large number of novel nanomaterials designed and fabricated for the applications [1-11]. These new nanomaterials provide a useful platform and have been utilized in chemical sensing that have exhibited great advantages over conventional methods in sensitivity, selectivity and practicality. Among these nanomaterials, especially metal nanoparticles such as nanosilver and carbon nanoparticles such as graphene oxide (GO) nanosheet have attracted much attention owing to its novel optical and chemical properties, preparation simplicity, and practicality [12,13]. Since nanosilvers exhibited strong surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) [14][15][16][17], it has been firstly selected as solid and sol substrates in SERS sensors. The synthesis of nanosilver includes physical and chemical methods [18,19]. The chemical synthesis of nanosilver sol as SERS substrate is interesting to people because of its simplicity, low-cost, easy control, and practicality that included the citrate heating and NaBH 4 -citrate procedures. The former nanosilver sols have been widely used in SERS detection technique [20], and it is difficult to the quantitative analysis because it is unstable and reproducibility is not good. The later is stable and has been used in SERS quantitative analysis, but the sensitivity is not high. To improve the sensitivity, selectivity, and reproducibility, other shapes of nanosilver [21][22][23][24][25][26] and the combination of nanosilver with new nanomaterials including graphene oxide (GO) [27][28][29] have been synthesized and utilized in SERS analysis. For example, triangular silver nanoplates were prepared by a water bath heating method at 60°C, using NaBH 4 and sodium citrate as reducing agents while polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) as a surfactant and protective agent, and it was used as SERS substrate to detect pyridine as low as 1.0× 10 −7 mol/L [21]. A high-density square array of freestanding silver nanorods has been fabricated on solid substrate surfaces using alumina templates [22]. Liu and Chen synthesized the graphene nanosheet-supported Ag nanoparticles t...