The invention discloses a hollow ball micro / nano structure array with a plurality of
silver nano plates as basic elements and a preparation method thereof. In the array, a hollow
gold ball array is arranged on a substrate, fan-shaped
silver nano plates are arranged on
gold ball shells in a crossing and standing way, wherein the inside
diameter of the
gold ball shells is 1-10mu m, the thickness of the gold ball shells is 15-25nm, the height of the fan-shaped
silver nano plates is 500mn to 1mu m, the width of the fan-shaped silver nano plates is 200-500nm, the thickness of the fan-shaped silver nano plates is 20-30nm, and the gold ball shells are made of single silver
crystal. In the method,
polystyrene colloidal balls with the
diameter being 1-10mu m are attached to the surface of the substrate at first to form a single-layer
colloidal crystal template, a
gold film is evaporated on the surface of the single-layer
colloidal crystal template, the single-layer
colloidal crystal template with the evaporated
gold film on the surface is placed in silver
electrolyte for electrodeposition, intermediate products are obtained after cleaning and
drying and are then placed in
dichloromethane solution to dissolve
polystyrene colloidal balls, and thus the hollow ball micro / nano structure array with the silver nano plates as the basic elements is prepared. The hollow ball micro / nano structure array can be used as an SERS (surface enhanced
Raman scattering) active substrate for rapid trace detection of a variety of organic pollutants.