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 …

Anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have very important and unique applications in a
wide range of fields, including optical sensing, biomedicine, and chemical catalysis, among …

Gold nanostars are among the most efficient plasmonic nanomaterials for optical sensing
with surface enhanced Raman scattering. In recent years, gold nanostars have increased …

Plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) have played a significant role in the evolution of modern
nanoscience and nanotechnology in terms of colloidal synthesis, general understanding of …

We have recently witnessed a major improvement in the quality of nanoparticles encoded
with Raman-active molecules (SERS tags). Such progress relied mainly on a major …

A rapid, in-field, and reliable method for the detection of illegal drugs of abuse in biological
fluids without any sample pretreatment would potentially be helpful for law enforcement …

There is a critical need for sensitive rapid point-of-care detection of bacterial infection
biomarkers in complex biological fluids with minimal sample preparation, which can improve …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) nanotags hold a unique place among
bioimaging contrast agents due to their fingerprint-like spectra, which provide one of the …

The emergence of multidrug resistant (MDR) microorganisms has led to the development of
alternative approaches for providing relief from microbial attacks. The mechano-bactericidal …

A label-free detection method for noninvasive biofluids enables rapid on-site disease
screening and early-stage cancer diagnosis by analyzing metabolic alterations. Herein, we …