Surface-enhanced Raman scattering applications

X.X. Han, Y. Kitahama, T. Itoh, C.X. Wang, B. Zhao, Y. Ozaki, Protein-mediated sandwich strategy for surface-enhanced Raman scattering application to versatile protein detection. Anal. Chem. 81, 3350 (2009b)... 

Lombardi, 1., Cavallotti, P.L., Carraro, C. and Maboudian, R. (2007) Template assisted deposition of Ag nanopartide arrays for surface-enhanced Raman scattering applications. Sensors and Actuators B-Chemical, 125, 353-6. 

R. K. Chang and T. E. Furtak. Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering. Plenum, New York, 1982. A collection of individually authored papers describing many different applications of SERS. 

Nanosize particles (e.g., metals, semiconductors, etc.) are of continuing interest because they possess fascinating catalytic, electronic, and optical properties. Larger particles decorated with smaller nanoparticles on their surface are of interest because of their potential use as heterogeneous catalysts and their relevance in electronic and optical sensor applications as well as surface-enhanced Raman scattering [39,72-75]. 

A large number of possible applications of arrays of nanoparticles on solid surfaces is reviewed in Refs. [23,24]. They include, for example, development of new (elect-ro)catalytical systems for applications as chemical sensors, biosensors or (bio)fuel cells, preparation of optical biosensors exploiting localized plasmonic effect or surface enhanced Raman scattering, development of single electron devices and electroluminescent structures and many other applications. 

Liu YC, Yang KH, Yang SJ (2006) Sonoelectrochemical synthesis of spike-like gold-silver alloy nanoparticles from bulk substrates and the application on surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Anal Chim Acta 572 290-294... 

Guo, L., Huang, Q., Li, X. and Yang, S. (2001) Iron nanoparticles synthesis and applications in surface enhanced Raman scattering and electrocatalysis. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 3, 1661-1665. 

Nabiev, I., Chourpa, I., and Manfait, M. (1994) Applications of Raman and surface-enhanced Raman-scattering spectroscopy in medicine, J. Raman Spectrosc. 25, 13-23. 

Much of this research effort has been directed to the study of the fundamental basis of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), in order to understand the underlying principles. There have also been many applications of SERS to situations in which in situ vibrational... 

Wei G, Wang L, Liu Z, Song Y, Sun L, Yang T, Li Z (2005) DNA-network-templated self-assembly of silver nanoparticles and their application in surface-enhanced raman scattering. J Phys Chem B 109 23941-23947... 

In addition to the indirect experimental evidence coming from work function measurements, information about water orientation at metal surfaces is beginning to emerge from recent applications of a number of in situ vibrational spectroscopic techniques. Infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, and second harmonic generation have been used to investigate the structure of water at different metal surfaces, but the pictures emerging from all these studies are not always consistent, partially because of surface modification and chemical adsorption, which complicate the analysis. 

Applications of Raman and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering to the Analysis of Eukaryotic Samples... 

SOURCE Reprinted with permission from Kneipp, J., H. Kneipp, W.L. Rice, and K. Kneipp. 2005. Optical probes for biological applications based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering from indocyanine green on gold nanoparticles. Anal. Chem. 77 2381-2385. Copyright 2005 American Chemical Society. 

Advanced functional inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) have been studied intensively in the last couple of decades due to their unusual chemical and physical properties compared with their bulk materials, which enable them to be promising in applications as diverse as electronics,1 optics,2 optoelectronics,3 nanosensors,4 information storage,5 fuel cells,6 biomedicine,7 biological labeling,8 gene delivery,9 electrocatalysis,10 and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).11,12 For instance, metal NPs with... 

T. M. Cotton, The applications of surface-enhanced Raman scattering to biochemical systems, in Spectroscopy of Surfaces (R. J. H. Clark and R. E. Hester, eds.), Vol. 16. Chapter 3, p. 91, and references therein. John Wiley, New York, 1988. 

K. Kneipp, M. Moskovits and H. Kneipp (eds.), Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering—Physics and Applications, Springer, Berlin, 2006. 

In this section we first discuss the principles of resonance Raman and surface-enhanced Raman scattering and give some specific examples. Since the hyper Raman effect and the coherent nonlinear Raman effects have been described in Sec. 3.6, we only add some typical applications of the methods. 

Because macroporous materials have 3D periodicity on a length scale comparable to the wavelength of visible light, 3DOM materials have potential use as photonic crystals. Other potential applications include catalysts, bioglasses, sensors, and substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy (SERS). ... 

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