Advances in aptamer screening and aptasensors' detection of heavy metal ions

W Guo, C Zhang, T Ma, X Liu, Z Chen, S Li… - Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Heavy metal pollution has become more and more serious with industrial development and
resource exploitation. Because heavy metal ions are difficult to be biodegraded, they …

Present and future of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

J Langer, D Jimenez de Aberasturi, J Aizpurua… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on
nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical …

Recent advances in droplet microfluidics for single-cell analysis

Z Jiang, H Shi, X Tang, J Qin - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-cell manipulation and analysis is essential for studying many fundamental biological
processes and discovering cellular heterogeneity. Multi-parameter studies of intercellular …

SERS-activated platforms for immunoassay: probes, encoding methods, and applications

Z Wang, S Zong, L Wu, D Zhu, Y Cui - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Owing to their excellent multiplexing ability, high sensitivity, and large dynamic range,
immunoassays using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) as the readout signal …

Bottom-up assembled photonic crystals for structure-enabled label-free sensing

J Wang, PWH Pinkse, LI Segerink, JCT Eijkel - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photonic crystals (PhCs) display photonic stop bands (PSBs) and at the edges of these
PSBs transport light with reduced velocity, enabling the PhCs to confine and manipulate …

Detection and spatial mapping of mercury contamination in water samples using a smart-phone

Q Wei, R Nagi, K Sadeghi, S Feng, E Yan, SJ Ki… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Detection of environmental contamination such as trace-level toxic heavy metal ions mostly
relies on bulky and costly analytical instruments. However, a considerable global need …

Recent progress in surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for the detection of environmental pollutants

DW Li, WL Zhai, YT Li, YT Long - Microchimica Acta, 2014 - Springer
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has emerged as one of the most promising
analytical tools in recent years. Due to advantageous features such as sensitivity, specificity …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensors for food safety and environmental monitoring

H Tang, C Zhu, G Meng, N Wu - Journal of the Electrochemical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
This article gives a review of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) sensors for food
safety and environmental pollution monitoring. It introduces the basic concepts of SERS …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and microfluidic platforms: challenges, solutions and potential applications

IJ Jahn, O Žukovskaja, XS Zheng, K Weber… - Analyst, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The exhaustive body of literature published in the last four years on the development and
application of systems based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) combined …

Ultrasensitive analysis of kanamycin residue in milk by SERS-based aptasensor

Y Jiang, DW Sun, H Pu, Q Wei - Talanta, 2019 - Elsevier
An ultrasensitive method for the kanamycin (KANA) detection in milk sample using surface-
enhanced Raman spectroscopy-based aptasensor was employed in the current study …