Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is a spectroscopic technique which combines
modern laser spectroscopy with the exciting optical properties of metallic nanostructures …

Adaptation of medical treatment to a particular patient requires the monitoring the
concentration of active substances or biomarkers in the body during medical treatment …

Cyclic voltammetry coupled with different spectroscopic (UV/Vis, fluorescence and Raman)
techniques were used to study the interaction of mitoxantrone (MTX), an antitumor drug, with …

Amorphous silver nanoparticles of ca. 20 nm size have been prepared by the sonochemical
reduction of an aqueous silver nitrate solution in an atmosphere of argon-hydrogen. The …

Nanosize silver particles are formed in aqueous surfactant systems and have been found to
be very reactive toward oxygen in the presence of borohydride. Purging of air (O2) or simple …

The ability of surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to measure the chemotherapy
drug 5‐fluorouracil in saliva is presented. A silver‐doped sol–gel provided SERS and also …

Genetic research programs such as the human genome project have demonstrated the
need for selective detection of nucleic acids at ultralow concentrations (McKusik, VA FASEB …

The accurate detection of DNA sequences is essential for a variety of post human genome
projects including detection of specific gene variants for medical diagnostics and …

The aim of this tutorial review is to give an overview of the state of the art of intracellular
applications of analytical SERS spectroscopy. We pay particular attention to nanoparticle …

The present work depicts the efficient one-step synthesis and detailed evaluation of stable
aqueous colloids of silver nanoparticles (NPs) coated with poly (ethylene glycol)(PEG) …