Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

Noble metal nanoparticles due to their unique optical properties arising from their
interactions with an incident light have been intensively employed in a broad range of …

Plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (PERS), including surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy, shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and tip-enhanced …

Driven by applications in chemical sensing, biological imaging and material
characterisation, Raman spectroscopies are attracting growing interest from a variety of …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) inherits the rich chemical fingerprint
information on Raman spectroscopy and gains sensitivity by plasmon-enhanced excitation …

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 …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and related spectroscopies are powered
primarily by the concentration of the electromagnetic (EM) fields associated with light in or …

DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) provides significantly enhanced Raman
scattering signals from molecules adsorbed on plasmonic nanostructures, as well as the …

The predictable nature of DNA interactions enables the programmable assembly of highly
advanced 2D and 3D DNA structures of nanoscale dimensions. The access to ever larger …