Issue 18, 2020

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: benefits, trade-offs and future developments

Abstract

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a vibrational spectroscopy technique with sensitivity down to the single molecule level that provides fine molecular fingerprints, allowing for direct identification of target analytes. Extensive theoretical and experimental research, together with continuous development of nanotechnology, has significantly broadened the scope of SERS and made it a hot research field in chemistry, physics, materials, biomedicine, and so on. However, SERS has not been developed into a routine analytical technique, and continuous efforts have been made to address the problems preventing its real-world application. The present minireview focuses on analyzing current and potential strategies to tackle problems and realize the SERS performance necessary for translation to practical applications.

Graphical abstract: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: benefits, trade-offs and future developments

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
11 Feb 2020
Accepted
14 Eph 2020
First published
14 Eph 2020
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2020,11, 4563-4577

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: benefits, trade-offs and future developments

A. I. Pérez-Jiménez, D. Lyu, Z. Lu, G. Liu and B. Ren, Chem. Sci., 2020, 11, 4563 DOI: 10.1039/D0SC00809E

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