Food waste is a serious problem in our modern era, causing economic loss and
exacerbating issues like hunger, environmental pollution, and water shortage. Residual food …

Fouling and contamination of surfaces are prevailing challenges humanities facing today in
fields such as healthcare, hospitality, and food manufacturing. These challenges strongly …

A novel hydrophobic-SERS substrate platform based on silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)
functionalized commercially available filter paper was reported. Compared with …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a widely used analytical tool that allows
molecular fingerprint-based ultra-sensitive detection through an enhanced electromagnetic …

Improving the properties of polymeric membranes for water filtration have inspired a lot of
interest due to the undesirable long-term impacts. Some of the most recent achievements in …

In this paper, a hydrophobic substrate as concentrators including an inner layer of
polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and an outer layer covered a thin layer of perfluoropolyether …

Considering the inherent hydrophilic and porous nature of paper, the rapid absorption and
diffusion of aqueous analyte solutions on paper-based SERS substrates may severely affect …

In real environment, wastewaters containing various oily organic solvents or soluble dyes
bring serious damage to the environment and threaten the health of human. Although …

Detection of target analytes with high sensitivity and reproducibility remains a challenge for
surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) due to the lack of cost-effective and highly …

Pollutants in the real environment are mostly oil/water mixtures, therefore the oil phase and
the water phase may lead to mutual interference when SERS detection is performed. The …