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High spin Fe3+-related bonding strength and electron transfer for sensitive and stable SERS detection

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Multi-layer core–shell metal oxide/nitride/carbon and its high-rate electroreduction of nitrate to ammonia

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A WOx/MoOx hybrid oxide based SERS FET and investigation on its tunable SERS performance

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Constructing the Mo2C@MoOx Heterostructure for Improved SERS Application

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α-MoO3 Microflakes Decorated with Gold Nanoislands as SERS-Active Substrates

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Electrodeposition of a Silver Nanoparticle Substrate with Application for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)

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Molybdenum Trioxide Quantum Dot-Encapsulated Nanogels for Virus Detection by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering on a 2D Substrate

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Enhancing SERS sensitivity of semiconductors through constructing CuO@TiO2 heterojunctions via atomic layer deposition

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Oxygen-Tailored MoS2 as a High-Performance Substrate for Pressure-Induced Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

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Ag decorated sea urchin-MoO3 based hierarchical micro-nano structures as surface - enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates for the detection of a nitrosamine industrial pollutant

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Novel nanomaterial-based SERS sensors for antibiotic detection: Design strategies and enhancement mechanisms

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Laser- and temperature-induced phase transformation of molybdenum oxide nanoparticles synthesized via pulsed laser ablation in liquid

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Flexible surface-enhanced Raman scatting substrates: recent advances in their principles, design strategies, diversified material selections and applications

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Hierarchically porous coralloid ZnO@Ag microspheres as SERS substrate for highly sensitive malachite green detection

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Review of Mo-based materials in heterogeneous catalytic oxidation for wastewater purification

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Effective Strategies on Fabricating Photoelectrode Materials for Enhancing Photoelectrochemical Sensing

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Ion-Engineered Nanostructuring of MoO3–Ag–Au Multilayer Surfaces as SERS Substrates for the Detection of Organic Molecules

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Fe and Cu Intercalations Enhance SERS of MoO3 through Different Mechanistic Pathways

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Insights into the Semiconductor SERS Activity: The Impact of the Defect-Induced Energy Band Offset and Electron Lifetime Change

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Innovative quantum dots-based SERS for ultrasensitive reporting of contaminants in food: Fundamental concepts and practical implementations

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Charge-Transfer Resonance and Surface Defect-Dominated WO3 Hollow Microspheres as SERS Substrates for the miRNA 155 Assay

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New Trends in SERS Substrates With Micro‐ and Nanostructures: Materials, Substrates, Preparation, and Applications

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Rapid detection of phenytoin sodium by partial-least squares and linear regression models combined with surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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Interfacial Bonding Induced Charge Transfer in Two‐Dimensional Amorphous MoO3‐x/Graphdiyne Oxide Non‐Van der Waals Heterostructures for Dominant SERS Enhancement

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An Alloy Platform of Dual‐Fingerprints for High‐Performance Stroke Screening

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Enhanced charge-transfer induced by conduction band electrons in aluminum-doped zinc oxide/molecule/Ag sandwich structures observed by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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Microfluidic SERS devices: brightening the future of bioanalysis

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Kinetics-Controlled Simple Method for the Preparation of Au@Ag Hierarchical Superstructures for SERS Analysis

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Advancements in recyclable photocatalytic semiconductor substrates for SERS detection in food safety applications

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A novel Ag2SO3 microcrystal substrate for highly sensitive SERS sensing of multifold organic pollutants

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Laser-Fabricated MoS2 Nanoparticles as Efficient Near-Infrared Photosensitizers

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