Practical Applications of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)

Dear Colleagues,

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful sensing technique for probing molecules in contact or proximity to a plasmonic substrate, usually a metal surface, but, more recently, also to semiconductors or hybrid materials. Since its discovery over 40 years ago, it has enjoyed a steady growth of interest in general as well as in target-oriented applications, such as biosensing, the monitoring of bacterial contamination, environmental analysis, liquid biopsy, therapeutic drug monitoring, renewable energy and catalysis. SERS applications are now also benefitting from the use of advanced analytical methods provided by chemometrics and machine learning.

In this Special Issue, we invite researchers from interdisciplinary fields to submit original articles and reviews exploring practical applications of SERS spectroscopy to resolve technological and analytical needs in several fields, including, but not limited to:

• Novel SERS substrates for practical applications;
• SERS applications in energy devices;
• SERS applications in biological and biomedical sensors;
• Microfluidic SERS;
• Chemometrics and machine learning in SERS analysis.

Dr. Stefano Fornasaro
Prof. Dr. Valter Sergo
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.