SERS – The year in review

Looking back at 2019, we would like to highlight some of the great research that has been published in RSC Advances over the year. We are proud to present a selection of the most popular 2019 articles published on surface-enhanced Raman scattering so far.

We hope you enjoy reading these articles – free to read and accessible to everyone.

Happy New Year from the RSC Advances team!

Explosives sensing using Ag-Cu alloy nanoparticles synthesized by femtosecond laser ablation and irradiation
Moram Sree Satya Bharati, Byram Chandu and S. Venugopal Rao
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 1517-1525. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08462a

Synthesis and evaluation of the SERS effect of Fe3O4-Ag Janus composite materials for separable, highly sensitive substrates
Yanlin Li, Sen Yang, Xuegang Lu, Wenyuan Duan and Toshihiro Moriga
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 2877-2884. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra09569h

In situ synthesis of low-cost and large-scale flexible metal nanoparticle-polymer composite films as highly sensitive SERS substrates for surface trace analysis
Chenghua Zong, Mengyi Ge, Hong Pan, Jing Wang, Xinming Nie, Qingquan Zhang, Wenfeng Zhao, Xiaojun Liu and Yang Yu
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 2857-2864. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08818g

A SERS aptasensor for sensitive and selective detection of bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate
Dandan Tu, Javier T. Garza and Gerard L. Coté
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 2618-2625. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra09230c

Machine learning algorithms enhance the specificity of cancer biomarker detection using SERS-based immunoassays in microfluidic chips
Nariman Banaei, Javad Moshfegh, Arman Mohseni-Kabir, Jean Marie Houghton, Yubing Sun and Byung Kim
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 1859-1868. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08930b

One-pot synthesis of hollow hydrangea Au nanoparticles as a dual catalyst with SERS activity for in situ monitoring of a reduction reaction
Yazhou Qin, Yuxiang Lu, Wufan Pan, Dongdong Yu and Jianguang Zhou
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 10314-10319. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra00733d

Application of surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERS) to the study of organic functional materials: electronic structure and charge transfer properties of 9,10-bis((E)-2-(pyridin-4-yl)vinyl)anthracene
Juan Soto, Elizabeth Imbarack, Isabel López-Tocón, Santiago Sánchez-Cortés, Juan C. Otero and Patricio Leyton
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 14511-14519. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra01269a

Plasmonic nanomaterial structuring for SERS enhancement
Agnes Purwidyantri, Chih-Hsien Hsu, Chia-Ming Yang, Briliant Adhi Prabowo, Ya-Chung Tian and Chao-Sung Lai
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 4982-4992. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra10656h

Photovoltaic cells as a highly efficient system for biomedical and electrochemical surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy analysis
K. Niciński, E. Witkowska, D. Korsak, K. Noworyta, J. Trzcińska-Danielewicz, A. Girstun and A. Kamińska
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 576-591. DOI: 10.1039/c8ra08319c

Sandwiching analytes with structurally diverse plasmonic nanoparticles on paper substrates for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Jemima A. Lartey, John P. Harms, Richard Frimpong, Christopher C. Mulligan, Jeremy D. Driskell and Jun-Hyun Kim
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 32535-32543. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra05399a

Assembly of gold nanoparticles using turnip yellow mosaic virus as an in-solution SERS sensor
Ha Anh Nguyen, Isabelle Jupin, Philippe Decorse, Stephanie Lau-Truong, Souad Ammar and Nguyet-Thanh Ha-Duong
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 32296-32307. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra08015e

A simple one-step procedure to synthesise gold nanostars in concentrated aqueous surfactant solutions
Ferenc Liebig, Ricky Henning, Radwan M. Sarhan, Claudia Prietzel, Clemens N. Z. Schmitt, Matias Bargheer and Joachim Koetz
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 23633-23641. DOI: 10.1039/c9ra02384d

 

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