The development of diagnostic and therapeutic nanoparticles for biomedical applications is
of broad current interest in science, engineering, and medicine. The fundamental basis is …

In ambient atmospheres, aluminum becomes rapidly coated with a compact 2–3 nm thick
oxide layer. This native oxide layer prevents the metal surface from further oxidation …

The efficient progress in nanotechnology has transformed many aspects of food science and
the food industry with enhanced investment and market share. Recent advances in …

In the last decade the use of nanomaterials has been having a great impact in biosensing. In
particular, the unique properties of noble metal nanoparticles have allowed for the …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

It is now well‐known that the size, shape, and composition of nanomaterials can
dramatically affect their physical and chemical properties, and that technologies based on …

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) at extremely high enhancement level turns the
weak inelastic scattering effect of photons on vibrational quantum states into a structurally …

Metallic nanostructures attract much interest as an efficient media for surface‐enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS). Significant progress has been made on the synthesis of metal …

Understanding protein–inorganic surface interactions is central to the rational design of new
tools in biomaterial sciences, nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine. Although a significant …

Research on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is an area of intense interest
because the technique allows one to probe small collections of, and in certain cases …