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The Efficient and Sensitive Detection of Serum Dopamine Based on a MOF-199/Ag@Au Composite SERS Sensing Structure

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Reversible Swell–Shrink Hydrogel Microspheres for High-Selectivity Digital SERS Analysis of Nonvolatile Fentanyl in Simulated Breath Aerosols

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Label-Free Malignancy Phenotyping of Living Cancer Cells by High-Performance Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Substrates

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Nanoimprinted PVDF–MWCNT Composites with Silver Coating as a Label-Free Plasmonic Platform for Ultrasensitive Detection

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Machine learning-driven SERS fingerprinting of disintegrated viral components for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 in environmental dust

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Digital SERS Nanoprobe Immunoassay With Single‐Particle Sensing Resolution for Detection of Pancreatic Cancer Biomarkers From Clinical Blood Samples

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Nanowire-in-bowl-shaped piezoelectric cavity structure for SERS directional detection of nanoplastics less than 50 nm

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Quantification of Plasma Dopamine in Depressed Patients Using Silver-Enriched Silicon Nanowires as SERS-Active Substrates

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Pushing the Limits of Lateral Flow Immunoassay by Digital SERS for the Ultralow Detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 Virus

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V2O5 nanoparticle films as a platform for plasmon-free surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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Nanolaminate Plasmonic Substrates for High-Throughput Living Cell SERS Measurements and Artificial Neural Network Classification of Cellular Drug Responses

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Shell thickness-dependent Au@Ag nanoparticles for surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection of pollutants

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Digital SERS immunoassay of Interleukin-6 based on Au@Ag-Au nanotags

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Spatial molecular profiling of living single-cell by membrane-interfaced 3D SERS substrates

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Subpicomolar Dopamine Detection Using Two-Dimensional Cobalt Telluride

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Microcavity Array-Based Digital SERS Chip for Rapid and Accurate Label-free Quantitative Detection of Live Bacteria

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Engineering FeOOH/Fe2O3@Carbon Interfaces With Biomass‐Derived Carbon Nanodot/Iron Colloids for Efficient Redox‐Modulated Dopamine Voltammetric Detection

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Gold Nanoparticles in Nanomedicine: Unique Properties and Therapeutic Potential

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Plasma-Tailored Polydimethylsiloxane Substrates for Eventing of Single Molecules Using Wrinkle-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

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Single-Nanoparticle-Based Digital SERS Sensing Platform for the Accurate Quantitative Detection of SARS-CoV-2

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