Background Food safety has attracted considerable attention in recent years. As a rapid,
fingerprint-type recognition and nondestructive detection technique, surface-enhanced …

Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) readily transform in the environment, which modifies their
properties and alters their transport, fate, and toxicity. It is essential to consider such …

Naturally derived materials with hierarchical organization are attractive candidates for high-
performance and functional bionanocomposites because of their renewability …

The potential for water pollution outbreaks requires the development of rapid, yet simple
detection methods for water quality monitoring. Plasmonic nanostructures such as gold …

Ionic liquids (ILs), in particular imidazolium-based ILs, have proven to be suitable media for
the generation and stabilisation of soluble metal nanoparticles (NPs). Indeed, transition …

Water is one of the essential enablers of life on earth. Beginning with the origin of the
earliest form of life in seawater, it has been central to the evolution of human civilizations …

Plasmonics is an emerging field that examines the interaction between light and metallic
nanostructures at the metal-dielectric interface. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) …

Covering everything from the basic theoretical and practical knowledge to new exciting
developments in the field with a focus on analytical and life science applications, this …

Silver and gold nanorods with aspect ratios from 1 to 16 have been used as substrates for
surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in colloidal solution. The nanorod aspect …

In this tutorial review, we provide an overview of the recent research toward surface
functionalization of plasmonic nanoparticles for the generation of advanced optical sensors …