Nanostructures for Tip and Surface Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (TERS, SERS, SEIRA, SECARS)
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2024) | Viewed by 9537
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Interests: raman spectroscopy; SERS; biomedical analysis; plasmonic and luminescent nanomaterials; wet chemical and electrochemical processing
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Interests: materials; photovoltaics; thin-film silicon; perovskites; microfluidics; SERS; biosensors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vibrational spectroscopy methods have found many applications in science, engineering, medicine, and other spheres of human life. In the past few decades, the tools for performing molecular analysis using infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopy have improved so much that it has become possible to detect target single molecules and visualize them in complex biological objects. One of the decisive roles in achieving such amazing results has been played by the combination of nanomaterials that facilitate enhancing IR absorption and Raman scattering, spectrometers, confocal, and probe microscopes. This has led to the development of unique precision techniques such as tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS), surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), surface-enhanced IR absorption (SEIRA), and surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS), which now have tangible prospects to be widely implemented for accurate and reproducible non-contact measurements. This Special Issue aims to publish new research and state-of-the-art applications in all types of nanomaterials for TERS, SERS, SEIRA, and SECARS, including but not limited to the design, simulation, and engineering of metallic, dielectric, and hybrid nanostructures to improve molecular analysis performances, such as selectivity, reproducibility, accuracy, availability, and biosafety. It is my pleasure to encourage both theoretical and empirical work in this ever-expanding and exciting field of science and technology.
Dr. Hanna Bandarenka
Dr. Hugo Aguas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS)
- surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)
- surface-enhanced infrared absorption (SEIRA)
- surface-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (SECARS)
- plasmonic nanostructures
- charge transfer
- electric field simulation
- DFT and MD simulation
- sensing and biosensing
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