Molybdenum Boride MBene with an Ultraclean Surface for Stable and Portable Detection of Environment Toxins.

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State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, People's Republic of China.

Published: August 2025


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The inherently poor chemical stability and sensitivity of two-dimensional MXene materials pose significant challenges for their application in non-noble metal surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) under harsh conditions. Herein, a novel unfunctionalized MoB MBene with an ultraclean surface is reported as a stable, ultrasensitive SERS substrate for portable detection of environment toxins. The MoB MBene enables the detection of R6G down to 10 M with an SPF of 4.23 × 10, surpassing most MXene substrates, and its SERS mechanism is mainly attributed to the synergistic effects of enhanced charge transfer efficiency promoted by the ultraclean surface and vacancy modulated photon induced charge transfer resonance. Moreover, it exhibits excellent long-term SERS enhanced stability, which can maintain 86%, 75%, and 61% of its initial SERS performance after 45 days of storage at room temperature and 14 days of storage at low (-26 °C) and high (100 °C) temperatures. Notably, a portable Raman system based on MoB demonstrates ultrasensitive detection of the ricin A chain in real river water, achieving a concentration limit of 0.01 μg/mL and 97.8% accuracy assisted by the developed Transformer model. This work offers new insights for designing stable and sensitive MBene-based SERS substrates for field-deployable sensing in security and public health scenarios.

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