The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

After three decades of developments, single particle tracking (SPT) has become a powerful
tool to interrogate dynamics in a range of materials including live cells and novel catalytic …

Single-molecule super-resolution fluorescence microscopy and single-particle tracking are
two imaging modalities that illuminate the properties of cells and materials on spatial scales …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful spectroscopy technique that can
provide non-destructive and ultra-sensitive characterization down to single molecular level …

Optical detection and spectroscopy of single molecules and single nanoparticles have been
achieved at room temperature with the use of surface-enhanced Raman scattering …

Advances in imaging techniques now make it feasible to do things that were not previously
possible. Experiments in which interacting proteins are observed inside living cells are now …

A general overview of the field of single-molecule (SM) surface-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (SERS) as it stands today is provided. After years of debates on the basic …

The widespread use of controlled molecular‐level motion in key natural processes suggests
that great rewards could come from bridging the gap between the present generation of …

In the Raman effect, incident light is inelastically scattered from a sample and shifted in
frequency by the energy of its characteristic molecular vibrations. Since its discovery in …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a powerful fingerprint vibrational
spectroscopy with a single-molecule detection limit, but its applications are generally …