Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Glucose monitoring is essential to evaluate the degree of glucose metabolism disorders.
The enzymatic determination has been the most widely used method in glucose detection …

Nanoparticles exhibiting diverse shapes, high porosity and chemical stability reveal, upon
appropriate chemical engineering, enzyme-like catalytic activities,“nanozymes”, providing a …

Raman spectroscopy, as a label-free optical technology, has widely applied in tumor
diagnosis. Relying on the different Raman technologies, conventional diagnostic methods …

An accurate understanding of reaction mechanisms is crucial for the rational design of highly
efficient catalytic materials for electrochemical CO 2 reduction reaction (CO 2 RR). In situ …

This Feature Article starts highlighting some recent experimental and theoretical advances
in the field of IR and Raman spectroscopy, giving a taste of the breadth and dynamics of this …

Conventional laboratory techniques exhibit impressive sensing performance and still
constitute an irreplaceable tool in bioanalytics. Nevertheless, high costs, time consumption …

The functions of electrochemical energy conversion and storage devices rely on the
dynamic junction between a solid and a fluid: the electrochemical interface (EI). Many …

Two-dimensional (2D) MXene materials have attracted broad interest in surface-enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS) applications by virtue of their abundant surface terminations and …