Current challenges

Although a number of difficulties still hamper the development of TERS, overcoming these will surely lead to TERS maturing into a technology for robust nanochemical analysis. Some of these challenges are outUned in the following sections. 

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S. T. Nance, ed.. Blood Safety Current Challenges, AABB, Bethesda, Md., 1992. 

Gustafsson O, Gschwend PM (1996) Aquatic colloids concepts, definitions, and current challenges. Limnol Oceanogr 42 519-528... 

The overview report will identify recent advances and current challenges in fundamental understanding of the basic science, and it will explore the impact beyond the chemical sciences that these advances have had in the past. It will also explore the possibilities for such impact in the future, recognizing that such developments are frequently serendipitous. Issues to be addressed include ... 

The greatest current challenge is to make experimentation with these drugs more attractive to scientists and less attractive to social users. 

Nagl S, Wolfbeis OS (2007) Optical multiple chemical sensing status and current challenges. Analyst 132 507-511... 

One of the objectives of this paper will be to show some specific examples of these effects in electrolysis and illustrate the substantial need for a better understanding of the thermodynamics of the solution chemistry involved in electrodics. Some of these needs are more obvious and have been indicated previously ( 3) and include such items as AG°, Kg0 and Cp data on the systems of interest. However, much more extensive information is necessary on adsorption phenomena, complex ion formation and the equilibrium concentrations of these influential species. This need has always existed but it is even more important now if the current challenges being imposed by energy and materials shortages and environmental control are to be met. 

Abstract This chapter gives an overview of the current challenges encountered in... 

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