Chuanlai Xu

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: This review will cover both experiment and theory of chiral nanostructures starting with the origin and multiple components of mirror asymmetry of individual NPs and their assemblies, and shall consider four different types of chirality in nanostructure and related physical, chemical, and biological effects.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that gold nanorods assembled by the polymerase chain reaction into DNA-bridged chiral systems have promising analytical applications and may be particularly useful for biological analytes larger than 2–5 nm which are difficult to detect by methods based on plasmon coupling and ‘hot spots’.

TL;DR: Data indicate that the CD signal is much more sensitive to the concentration of miRNA than the luminescent signal, which is attributed to the strong CD intensity arising from the spin angular momentum of the photon interaction with chiral nanostructures and the plasmonic enhancement of the intrinsic chirality of DNA molecules in the pyramids.

TL;DR: Preparation of a family of self-assembled chiral pyramids made from multiple metal and/or semiconductor NPs with a yield as high as 80% and Tunability of chiroptical bands related to these transitions is essential from fundamental and practical points of view.