Xing Yi Ling

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: In this article, nanosized Pt and PtRu colloids were prepared by a microwave assisted polyol process and transferred to a toluene solution of decanthiol and Vulcan XC-72 was then added to the solution to adsorb the thiolated nanoparticles, which showed nearly spherical particles and narrow size distributions for both supported and unsupported metals.

TL;DR: This work presents a new method to chemically control the shape of silver nanocrystals by using a highly anisotropic etching process, which produces intraparticle gaps, which introduce modified plasmonic characteristics and significant scattering intensity in the near-infrared.

TL;DR: Five major approaches to enhance SERS performance are outlined and can be integrated with engineered hotspots as a multifaceted strategy to further boost SERS sensitivities that are unachievable using hotspot engineering alone.

TL;DR: By favoring the originally unfavored NRR, the electrocatalytic design is envisaged as a starting point for high-performance nitrogen-to-ammonia electroconversion directly from water vapor–abundant air to address increasing global demand of ammonia in (bio)chemical and energy industries.