Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has become a powerful tool in chemical,
material and life sciences, owing to its intrinsic features (ie, fingerprint recognition …

Catalysis is essential to modern life and has a huge economic impact. The development of
new catalysts critically depends on synthetic methods that enable the preparation of tailored …

In the last two decades, plasmon resonance in gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) has been the
subject of intense research efforts. Plasmon physics is intriguing and its precise modelling …

Driven by functionality and purity demand for applications of inorganic nanoparticle colloids
in optics, biology, and energy, their surface chemistry has become a topic of intensive …

Conversion and utilization of solar energy is one of the most important strategies being
proposed to mitigate the foreshadowed global energy crisis and environmental issues …

Dielectrics represent a new frontier for surface-enhanced Raman scattering. They can serve
as either a complement or an alternative to conventional, metal-based SERS, offering key …

Amorphous materials are usually evaluated as photocatalytically inactive due to the
amorphous nature-induced self-trapping of tail states, in spite of their achievements in …

Development of multifunctional nanomaterials, one of the most interesting and advanced
research areas in the field of nanotechnology, is anticipated to revolutionize cancer …

Despite the traditional plasmonic materials are counted on one hand, there are a lot of
possible combinations leading to alloys with other elements of the periodic table, in …

Spectrometrically or optically encoded microsphere based suspension array technology
(SAT) is applicable to the high-throughput, simultaneous detection of multiple analytes …