Bin Ren

TL;DR: Shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy is reported, in which the Raman signal amplification is provided by gold nanoparticles with an ultrathin silica or alumina shell, which significantly expands the flexibility of SERS for useful applications in the materials and life sciences, as well as for the inspection of food safety, drugs, explosives and environment pollutants.

TL;DR: Prominent authors from all over the world joined efforts to summarize the current state-of-the-art in understanding and using SERS, as well as to propose what can be expected in the near future, in terms of research, applications, and technological development.

TL;DR: A review of the plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (PERS) field can be found in this paper, where a new generation of hotspots that are generated from hybrid structures combining PERS-active nanostructures and probe materials are discussed.

TL;DR: An outlook of the key challenges in bioanalytical SERS, including reproducibility, sensitivity, and spatial and time resolution is given.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated in this paper that a laser with a power level considered to be low in the traditional SERS measurement can already lead to a significant surface reaction.