Background Synthetic chemical pesticides play a significant role in increasing the overall
yield and productivity of agricultural foods by controlling and eradicating pests, insects, and …

Agricultural food crop yields have increased enormously due to the implementation of
chemical pesticides; however, their excessive and uncontrolled use has led to food …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has become a powerful tool in chemical,
material and life sciences, owing to its intrinsic features (ie, fingerprint recognition …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful analytical technique, which
allows quantitative detection of chemical species with molecular specificity and single …

N-Nitrosamines are a class of compounds notorious both for the potent carcinogenicity of
many of its members and for their widespread occurrence throughout the human …

In the last two decades, plasmonic resonance in metallic nanoparticles (Au, Ag NPs) has
created intensive research efforts in nanoscale optics, photonics and sensors. When light …

Immunoassay has been routinely used in hospitals and central labs. Nowadays, to further
meet the requirement of widespread applications of immunoassays, it is urgently needed to …

The existence of contaminants in food poses a serious threat to human health. In recent
years, aptamer sensors (aptasensors) have been developed rapidly for the detection of food …

In recent times, paper-based devices have been widely used in biotechnology due to their
high impact and prominence as point-of-care-testing devices. These introduce …

The growing interest in the development of new platforms for the application of Raman
spectroscopy techniques in biosensor technologies is driven by the potential of these …