Circular polarization-resolved Raman scattering methods include Raman optical activity
(ROA) and its derivative─ surface-enhanced Raman optical activity (SEROA). These …

Chirality describes the geometric property of an object that is not superimposable on its
mirror image and has been a pivotal concept in chemistry and biology since the 19th …

The applications of multiscale quantum–classical (QM–MM) approaches have shown an
extraordinary expansion and diversification in the last couple of decades. A great proportion …

This book details chiroptical spectroscopic methods: electronic circular dichroism (ECD),
optical rotatory dispersion (ORD), vibrational circular dichroism (VCD), and vibrational …

Optical near-field coupling between closely spaced plasmonic metal nanoparticles is
important to a range of nanophotonic applications of high contemporary interest, including …

Plasmonics serves as a most outstanding feature of nanoparticle technology and is
nowadays used in numerous applications within imaging, sensing and energy harvesting …

Resonance Raman Optical Activity (RROA) appeared as a natural extension of the
nonresonance branch. It combines the structural sensitivity of chiroptical spectroscopy with …

The vibrational spectroscopy of molecules adsorbed on metal nanoparticles can be
enhanced by many orders of magnitude so that the detection and identification of single …

In this work, the circular dichroisms (CD) of nanorice heterodimers consisting of two parallel
arranged nanorices with the same size but different materials are investigated theoretically …

Since surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is of considerable interest for sensing
applications in aqueous solution, the role that solvent plays in the spectroscopy must be …