Gaining insight into the mode of operation of heterogeneous catalysts is of great scientific
and economic interest. Raman spectroscopy has proven its potential as a powerful …

This review discusses a relatively new technique for optical nanoimaging at visible
wavelength, known as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS). This technique relies on …

The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

Amyloid fibrils are β-sheet rich protein aggregates that are strongly associated with various
neurodegenerative diseases. Raman spectroscopy has been broadly utilized to investigate …

The development of atomic force microscopy (AFM) has opened up a wide range of novel
opportunities in nanoscience and new modalities of observation in complex biological …

The critical role in surface reactions and heterogeneous catalysis of metal atoms with low
coordination numbers, such as found at atomic steps and surface defects, is firmly …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) materials have been one of the most extensively studied
classes of modern materials, due to their astonishing chemical, optical, electronic, and …

The recent development of high spatial resolution microscopy and spectroscopy tools
enabled reactivity analysis of homogeneous and heterogeneous (electro) catalysts at …

This review provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in tip-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (TERS) and focuses on its applications at the horizon including those in …

Confocal and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) are powerful techniques for
molecular characterization; however, they suffer from the drawback of diffraction-limited …