This review provides an up-to-date overview on silver nanoparticles-based materials
suitable as optical sensors for water pollutants. The topic is really hot considering the …

Nanomaterials have supported important technological advances due to their unique
properties and their applicability in various fields, such as biomedicine, catalysis …

It is well-known that Ag–Au bimetallic nanoplates have attracted significant research interest
due to their unique plasmonic properties and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) …

Pesticides are still abused and overused in agricultural production. Food safety monitoring
in terms of reliable detection and quantification of pesticide residues is an ever increasing …

Bimetallic Ag–Cu alloy microflowers with tunable surface compositions were fabricated as
surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrates with a limit of detection in the …

Persistent toxic substances (PTS) represent a paramount environmental issue in the 21st
century. Understanding the concentrations and forms of PTS in the environment is crucial for …

The flexibile nature of optical fiber enables it to offer remote-access capabilities, which could
be used in many biomedical applications. This review focuses on different micro-and nano …

Trimetallic Ag–Au–Cu alloy microflowers (MFs) with various surface compositions were
synthesized on a glass coverslip and used as efficient surface-enhanced Raman …

Metallic dendrites, a class of three-dimensional nanostructured materials, have drawn a lot
of interests in the recent years because of their interesting hierarchical structures and …

In this study, we developed active substrates consisting of Ag-decorated silicon nanowires
on a Si substrate using a single-step Metal Assisted Chemical Etching (MACE) process, and …