Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective

Jun Yi; En-Ming You; Ren Hu; De-Yin Wu; Guo-Kun Liu; Zhi-Lin Yang; Hua Zhang; Yu Gu; Yao-Hui Wang; Xiang Wang; Hao Ma; Yang Yang; Jun-Yang Liu; Feng Ru Fan; Chao Zhan; Jing-Hua Tian; Yu Qiao; Hailong Wang; Si-Heng Luo; Zhao-Dong Meng; Bing-Wei Mao; Jian-Feng Li; Bin Ren; Javier Aizpurua; Vartkess Ara Apkarian; Philip N. Bartlett; Jeremy Baumberg; Steven E. J. Bell; Alexandre G. Brolo; Louis E. Brus; Jaebum Choo; Li Cui; Volker Deckert; Katrin F. Domke; Zhen-Chao Dong; Sai Duan; Karen Faulds; Renee Frontiera; Naomi Halas; Christy Haynes; Tamitake Itoh; Janina Kneipp; Katrin Kneipp; Eric C. Le Ru; Zhi-Peng Li; Xing Yi Ling; Jacek Lipkowski; Luis M. Liz-Marzán; Jwa-Min Nam; Shuming Nie; Peter Nordlander; Yukihiro Ozaki; Rajapandiyan Panneerselvam; Jürgen Popp; Andrea E. Russell; Sebastian Schlücker; Yang Tian; Lianming Tong; Hongxing Xu; Yikai Xu; Liangbao Yang; Jianlin Yao; Jin Zhang; Yang Zhang; Yao Zhang; Bing Zhao; Renato Zenobi; George C. Schatz; Duncan Graham; Zhong-Qun Tian

doi:10.1039/D4CS00883A

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective†

Jun Yi,

‡^a En-Ming You,‡^b Ren Hu,

‡^a De-Yin Wu,

^a Guo-Kun Liu,

^a Zhi-Lin Yang,

^a Hua Zhang,

^a Yu Gu,^a Yao-Hui Wang,^a Xiang Wang,^a Hao Ma,

^a Yang Yang,

^a Jun-Yang Liu,

^a Feng Ru Fan,

^a Chao Zhan,^a Jing-Hua Tian,^a Yu Qiao,

^a Hailong Wang,^a Si-Heng Luo,^a Zhao-Dong Meng,^a Bing-Wei Mao,

^a Jian-Feng Li,

^a Bin Ren,

^a Javier Aizpurua,^c Vartkess Ara Apkarian,^d Philip N. Bartlett,

^e Jeremy Baumberg,

^f Steven E. J. Bell,

^g Alexandre G. Brolo,

^hi Louis E. Brus,^j Jaebum Choo,

^k Li Cui,

^l Volker Deckert,^mn Katrin F. Domke,^o Zhen-Chao Dong,

^pq Sai Duan,

^r Karen Faulds,

^s Renee Frontiera,

^t Naomi Halas,

^u Christy Haynes,

^t Tamitake Itoh,

^v Janina Kneipp,

^w Katrin Kneipp,^w Eric C. Le Ru,^x Zhi-Peng Li,

^y Xing Yi Ling,

^zaa Jacek Lipkowski,^ab Luis M. Liz-Marzán,

^acadae Jwa-Min Nam,

^af Shuming Nie,

^ag Peter Nordlander,

^u Yukihiro Ozaki,

^ah Rajapandiyan Panneerselvam,

^ai Jürgen Popp,

^mn Andrea E. Russell,

^e Sebastian Schlücker,

^aj Yang Tian,

^ak Lianming Tong,

^al Hongxing Xu,

^amanao Yikai Xu,

^ap Liangbao Yang,

^aq Jianlin Yao,

^ar Jin Zhang,

^ar Yang Zhang,^pq Yao Zhang,^pq Bing Zhao,

^as Renato Zenobi,

^at George C. Schatz,

^au Duncan Graham

^s and Zhong-Qun Tian

*^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, College of Environment and Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Department of Physics, iChEM, IKKEM, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
E-mail: zqtian@xmu.edu.cn

^b School of Ocean Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Oceanic Information Perception and Intelligent Processing, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China

^c Donostia International Physics Center, DIPC, and Ikerbasque, Basque Agency for Research, and University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastian, Spain

^d Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA

^e School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

^f NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, JJ Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, UK

^g School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, David Keir Building, BT9 5AG Belfast, UK

^h Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

ⁱ Centre for Advanced Materials and Related Technologies (CAMTEC), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada

^j Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, 10027, USA

^k Department of Chemistry, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, South Korea

^l Xiamen Key Laboratory of Indoor Air and Health, Key Lab of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China

^m Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745 Jena, Germany

ⁿ Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Helmholtzweg 4, 07743 Jena, Germany

^o Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141 Essen, Germany

^p Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, School of Physics and Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

^q Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China

^r Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Physical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

^s Centre for Nanometrology, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK

^t Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant St SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

^u Department of Chemistry, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Laboratory for Nanophotonics Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA

^v Health and Medical Research Institute (HRI), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Takamatsu, Kagawa 761-0395, Japan

^w Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Straße 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany

^x The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

^y Beijing Key Laboratory for Nano-Photonics and Nano-Structure (NPNS), Department of Physics, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China

^z School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore, Singapore

^aa School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China

^ab Electrochemical Technology Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada

^ac CIC biomaGUNE, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

^ad Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48009 Bilbao, Spain

^ae Cinbio, University of Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain

^af Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, South Korea

^ag Department of Bioengineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61801, USA

^ah School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Kwansei Gakuin University, 1 Gakuen-Uegahara, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1330, Japan

^ai Department of Chemistry, SRM University AP, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh 522502, India

^aj Physical Chemistry I, Department of Chemistry, and Center of Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) & Center of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB), University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), 45141 Essen, Germany

^ak Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Dongchuan Road 500, Shanghai 200241, P. R. China

^al Center for Nanochemistry, Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China

^am School of Physics and Technology and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education and School of Microelectronics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

^an Wuhan Institute of Quantum Technology, Wuhan 430206, China

^ao Henan Academy of Sciences, Zhengzhou 450046, China

^ap Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Frontiers Science Center for Materiobiology and Dynamic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China

^aq Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Technology, Institute of Health and Medical Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China

^ar College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, China

^as State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China

^at Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland

^au Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3113, USA

Abstract

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has evolved significantly over fifty years into a powerful analytical technique. This review aims to achieve five main goals. (1) Providing a comprehensive history of SERS's discovery, its experimental and theoretical foundations, its connections to advances in nanoscience and plasmonics, and highlighting collective contributions of key pioneers. (2) Classifying four pivotal phases from the view of innovative methodologies in the fifty-year progression: initial development (mid-1970s to mid-1980s), downturn (mid-1980s to mid-1990s), nano-driven transformation (mid-1990s to mid-2010s), and recent boom (mid-2010s onwards). (3) Illuminating the entire journey and framework of SERS and its family members such as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SHINERS) and highlighting the trajectory. (4) Emphasizing the importance of innovative methods to overcome developmental bottlenecks, thereby expanding the material, morphology, and molecule generalities to leverage SERS as a versatile technique for broad applications. (5) Extracting the invaluable spirit of groundbreaking discovery and perseverant innovations from the pioneers and trailblazers. These key inspirations include proactively embracing and leveraging emerging scientific technologies, fostering interdisciplinary cooperation to transform the impossible into reality, and persistently searching to break bottlenecks even during low-tide periods, as luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

This article is part of the themed collection: Surface and Tip Enhanced Spectroscopies

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