Abstract Background Surface-enhanced Raman scattering/spectroscopy (SERS) is now
being extensively employed as a non-destructive and highly sensitive analytical tool …

Optofluidics—the synergistic integration of photonics and microfluidics—is a new analytical
field that provides a number of unique characteristics for enhancing the sensing …

Heavy metal pollution is one of the most serious environmental problems, which undermines
global sustainability. Many efforts have been made to develop portable sensors for …

The transport of fluid in and around nanometer-sized objects with at least one characteristic
dimension below 100 nm enables the occurrence of phenomena that are impossible at …

Thanks to its unique features at the nanoscale, nanofluidics, the study and application of
fluid flow in nanochannels/nanopores with at least one characteristic size smaller than 100 …

For decades surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been intensely
investigated as a possible solution for performing analytical chemistry at the point of sample …

Photonics has long been used to study non-solid materials such as liquids, gases and
plasmas, but these fluidic media have traditionally not comprised a functional part of the …

In this paper, we review the state-of-the-art in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)
based optical detection techniques with an application focus on cancer diagnostics. As we …

Trace detection of the conformational transition of β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) from a
predominantly α-helical structure to β-sheet could have a large impact in understanding and …

Microreactor technology has gained significant popularity in the chemical and process
industry in the past decade. The development of microreactors either as innovative …