Plasmonic Nanostructures for Reliable and Quantitative Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3779
Special Issue Editor
Interests: design; preparation and testing of regular SERS-active surfaces and metal nanoparticles/adsorbate systems; Raman and SERS microspectroscopy; surface-enhanced fluorescence (SEF); Raman, DCDR and SERS spectroscopy of biomolecules and biologically important molecules (porphyrins, lipids, nucleic acids, drugs, stimulants, food dyes, etc.)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Experimental results obtained in different laboratories worldwide by researchers using surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) can differ significantly. The key parameter (which also represents the biggest pitfall) is an employed SERS substrate (colloidal or solid plasmonic nanostructure) determining the sensitivity and reproducibility of the recorded SERS spectra. The SERS plasmonic nanostructures exhibit significant differences in the homogeneity of their geometrical structure, instrumentation, and know-how required for fabrication/synthesis, and the option to be scaled up. This Special Issue will introduce new advanced plasmonic nanostructures for reliable and quantitative SERS applications, taking into account the recommendations, recently published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 5454, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201908154. by an international team of scientists with longstanding expertise in SERS. Their recommendations include i) the characterization of solid and colloidal SERS substrates by correlative electron and optical microscopy and spectroscopy, ii) the determination of the SERS enhancement factor using suitable Raman reporter/probe molecules, and iii) good analytical practice. Therefore, both newcomers and specialists will benefit from these recommendations in order to increase the inter-laboratory comparability of experimental SERS results and further establish SERS as an analytical tool.
Prof. Dr. Marek Procházka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- SERS
- plasmonic nanostructures
- characterization
- reproducibility
- sensitivity
- analytical practice
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