Toward a new era of SERS and TERS at the nanometer scale: From fundamentals to innovative applications

T Itoh, M Procházka, ZC Dong, W Ji… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
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 …

The rise and current status of polaritonic photochemistry and photophysics

R Bhuyan, J Mony, O Kotov, GW Castellanos… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

Plate-like colloidal metal nanoparticles

L Scarabelli, M Sun, X Zhuo, S Yoo, JE Millstone… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The pseudo-two-dimensional (2D) morphology of plate-like metal nanoparticles makes them
one of the most anisotropic, mechanistically understood, and tunable structures available …

Theoretical challenges in polaritonic chemistry

J Fregoni, FJ Garcia-Vidal, J Feist - ACS photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polaritonic chemistry exploits strong light–matter coupling between molecules and confined
electromagnetic field modes to enable new chemical reactivities. In systems displaying this …

Strong light–matter interactions: a new direction within chemistry

M Hertzog, M Wang, J Mony, K Börjesson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
It is possible to modify the chemical and physical properties of molecules, not only through
chemical modifications but also by coupling molecules strongly to light. More intriguingly …

Single-molecule strong coupling at room temperature in plasmonic nanocavities

R Chikkaraddy, B De Nijs, F Benz, SJ Barrow… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Photon emitters placed in an optical cavity experience an environment that changes how
they are coupled to the surrounding light field. In the weak-coupling regime, the extraction of …

Hybrid light–matter states in a molecular and material science perspective

TW Ebbesen - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The notion that light and matter states can be hybridized the way s and p
orbitals are mixed is a concept that is not familiar to most chemists and material scientists …

Novel nanostructures and materials for strong light–matter interactions

DG Baranov, M Wersall, J Cuadra, TJ Antosiewicz… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Quantum mechanical interactions between electromagnetic radiation and matter underlie a
broad spectrum of optical phenomena. Strong light-matter interactions result in the well …

Transition metal dichalcogenide nanodisks as high-index dielectric Mie nanoresonators

R Verre, DG Baranov, B Munkhbat, J Cuadra… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently been proposed as an
excitonic platform for advanced optical and electronic functionalities,–. However, in spite of …

Polaritonic chemistry with organic molecules

J Feist, J Galego, FJ Garcia-Vidal - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
We present an overview of the general concepts of polaritonic chemistry with organic
molecules, ie, the manipulation of chemical structure that can be achieved through strong …