Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

The significant advances in synthesis and functionalization have enabled the preparation of
high-quality nanoparticles that have found a plethora of successful applications. The unique …

The optical manipulation of tiny objects is significant to understand and to explore the
unknown in the microworld, which has found many applications in materials science and life …

Plasmonic core-satellite nanostructures assembled from simple building blocks have
attracted extensive attention since they were reported by the way of DNA-directed assembly …

The assembly of colloidal particles into 2D or 3D superstructures is significant as the
colloidal assembly exhibits collective behavior beyond the sum of single particles …

Surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy is a significant analytical tool capable of fingerprint
identification of molecule in a rapid and ultrasensitive manner. However, it is still hard to …

We describe the results of citrate-stabilized 100 nm gold nanourchins (GNU) functionalized
and conjugated with monoclonal antibody (mAb) in directional orientation to investigate the …

This paper presents a gel-based three-dimensional (3D) substrate for surface-enhanced
Raman spectroscopy (SERS) mediated by photonic nanojets (PNJs) to enhance the …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a highly sensitive technology to detect target
analytes. The construction of dynamic “hot-spots” represents a significant approach to …

As a highly functional platform, lab-on-fiber (LOF) has exhibited amazing potential to be
used in ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) detection. However …