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) is a powerful analytical technique, which
allows quantitative detection of chemical species with molecular specificity and single …

Conspectus When the size of materials is reduced, their volume decreases much faster than
their surface area, which in the most extreme case leads to 2D nanomaterials which are “all …

The interactions between molecules and noble metal nanosurfaces play a central role in
many areas of nanotechnology. The surface chemistry of noble metal surfaces under ideal …

Explosive trace detection (ETD) technologies play a vital role in maintaining national
security. ETD remains an active research area with many analytical techniques in …

Many of the features of SERS, such as its high sensitivity, molecular specificity and speed of
analysis make it attractive as an analytical technique. However, SERS currently remains a …

Substrate development in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) continues to
attract research interest. In order to determine performance metrics, researchers in …

Self-assembly at water–oil interfaces has been shown to be a cheap, convenient and
efficient route to obtain densely packed layers of plasmonic nanoparticles which have small …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), a variant of Raman spectroscopy, is a
powerful analytical technique that uses plasmonics to obtain detailed chemical information …

Advances in nanotechnology have resulted in a library of functional nanomaterials with well-
defined size, shape, composition, and surface functionalities that enable the conversion of …