Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS)
have opened a variety of exciting research fields. However, although a vast number of …

Amorphous materials are metastable solids with only short-range order at the atomic scale,
which results from local intermolecular chemical bonding. The lack of long-range order …

Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

High sensitivity, good signal repeatability, and facile fabrication of flexible surface enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS) substrates are common pursuits of researchers for the detection of …

This review article deals with the concepts, principles and applications of visible-light and
near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in in vitro …

Noble metal nanoparticles due to their unique optical properties arising from their
interactions with an incident light have been intensively employed in a broad range of …

Nanotechnology has become a trending area in science and has made great advances with
the development of functional, engineered nanoparticles. Various metal nanoparticles have …

Background Food quality and safety are very important from health as well as fiscal point of
view. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) techniques have unique advantages …

The coherent exchange of energy between materials and optical fields leads to strong light–
matter interactions and so-called polaritonic states with intriguing properties, halfway …

This article reviews recent fabrication methods for surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy
(SERS) substrates with a focus on advanced nanoarchitecture based on noble metals with …