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To address the complexity and costs of conventional AOH detection methods, we propose an alternative based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and specially designed nanoparticle substrate. Herein, silver-embedded silica (SiO2@Ag) nanoparticles with a highly reproducible SERS signal were successfully developed for detecting AOH. Silica nanoparticles (~145 nm) were used as a template to deposit silver nanoparticles (~17 nm), thereby generating SiO2@Ag. The SiO2@Ag nanoparticles showed a good linearity between SERS signal intensity and AOH concentrations from 16 to 1000 nM with a limit of detection of 4.83 nM. 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