Recent Developments In Plasmon Supported Raman Spectroscopy 45 Years Of Enhanced Raman Signals

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) might be one of the most impressive effects to demonstrate the power of plasmonic approaches in spectroscopy and became one of the "triggers" for the rapidly emerging field of plasmonics. This book provides a review of some recent developments in SERS, such as tip enhanced Raman scattering (TERS), reports new experimental observations, sophisticated new SERS-active structures and substrates, new theoretical insight to explain the effect as well as exciting applications in various fields such as analytical science, biomedicine and nanotechnology. Written for graduate students and established researchers looking for inspiration for future work, its interdisciplinary nature makes the book suitable for readers in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, nanotechnology and materials science.

Surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) might be one of the most impressive effects to demonstrate the power of plasmonic approaches in spectroscopy and became one of the "triggers" for the rapidly emerging field of plasmonics. This book provides a review of some recent developments in SERS, such as tip enhanced Raman scattering (TERS), reports new experimental observations, sophisticated new SERS-active structures and substrates, new theoretical insight to explain the effect as well as exciting applications in various fields such as analytical science, biomedicine and nanotechnology. Written for graduate students and established researchers looking for inspiration for future work, its interdisciplinary nature makes the book suitable for readers in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, nanotechnology and materials science. Contents: Nanoplasmonics Fundamentals and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering as a Physical Phenomenon (Mark I Stockman)Frontiers in Electromagnetic Mechanism Of SERS (Tamitake Itoh)Plasmon-Supported Two-Photon Excited Vibrational Sensing and Imaging (Janina Kneipp and Katrin Kneipp)Plasmonically Enhanced Elastic and Inelastic Light Scattering for Real-Time Study of Molecular Cell Functions (Sajanlal R Panikkanvalappil and Mostafa A El-Sayed)Deep-Ultraviolet Surface- and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (Atsushi Taguchi)Lithographically Prepared SERS-Active Substrates with Well-Defined Gaps Below 1nm (Kenneth Crozier and Wenqi Zhu)Hierarchical Porous Plasmonic Nanostructures as New SERS Substrates with Ultra-High Reproducibility and Sensitivity (Dang Yuan Lei)Shell-Isolated Nanoparticle-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (Jian-Feng Li, Rajapandiyan Panneerselvam and Zhong-Qun Tian)Ultra-High Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (Naihao Chiang, Guillaume Goubert, Eric A Pozzi, Michael O McAnally, Craig Chapman, Nan Jiang, George C Schatz and Richard P Van Duyne)Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Surface and Interface Analysis (Jin-Hui Zhong, Xiang Wang, Teng-Xiang Huang, Sheng-Chao Huang and Bin Ren)Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering in Liquid/Solution (Prompong Pienpinijtham and Yukihiro Ozaki)Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering of Nanocarbons (Sanpon Vantasin, Yoshito Okuno, Yuika Saito and Yukihiro Ozaki)Chemical Identification by Sub-Nanometer Resolved Single-Molecule Raman Scattering (Yao Zhang, Yang Zhang, Zhenchao Dong and Jianguo Hou)SERS Theory: The Chemical Effect of Rhodamine 6G Adsorption on Silver Surfaces on Its Raman Spectrum (Lindsey R Madison, Mark A Ratner and George C Schatz)Graphene-Enhanced Raman Scattering (GERS): Chemical Effect (Xi Ling, Shengxi Huang, Jing Kong and Mildred Dresselhaus)Charge-Transfer-Induced Enhancement of Raman Scattering Based on Semiconductors (Wei Ji, Xiao Xia Han and Bing Zhao) Readership: Graduate students and established researchers looking for inspiration for future work in the fields of chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, nanotechnology and materials science. Keywords: Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering;SERS;Analytical Chemistry;Spectroscopy;Plasmon-Supported Raman SpectroscopyReview:0

Since the inelastic scattering of light was predicted nearly 100 years ago, Raman spectroscopy has become a mainstay of characterization techniques, with applications in a vast array of fields from chemistry to materials science and nanotechnology, from forensics to geology and art. More recently, it has found usage in the life sciences, and this book hereby outlines the state-of-the-art advances in applications of Raman spectroscopy to human health and biomedicine. It covers a wide range of human health science including medicine (especially cancer), physiology, biological molecules, pharmaceutical science, cells, viruses, microorganisms, and food science. Another highlight is that it describes recent progress on various Raman techniques such as surface-enhanced Raman scattering, tip-enhanced Raman scattering, non-linear Raman spectroscopy, Raman microscopy, and Raman imaging. Novel spectral analysis methods such as chemometrics are also prominently discussed.

The methodology of analytical pyrolysis-GC/MS has been known for several years, but is seldom used in research laboratories and process control in the chemical industry. This is due to the relative difficulty of interpreting the identified pyrolysis products as well as the variety of them. This book contains full identification of several classes of polymers/copolymers and biopolymers that can be very helpful to the user. In addition, the practical applications can encourage analytical chemists and engineers to use the techniques explored in this volume.The structure and the functions of various types of pyrolyzers and the results of the pyrolysis-gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric identification of synthetic polymers/copolymers and biopolymers at 700°C are described. Practical applications of these techniques are also included, detailing the analysis of microplastics, failure analysis in the automotive industry and solutions for technological problems.

This book gives an overview of recent developments in RS and SERS for sensing and biosensing considering also limitations, possibilities and prospects of this technique. Raman scattering (RS) is a widely used vibrational technique providing highly specific molecular spectral patterns. A severe limitation for the application of this spectroscopic technique lies in the low cross section of RS. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy overcomes this problem by 6-11 orders of magnitude enhancement compared with the standard RS for molecules in the close vicinity of certain rough metal surfaces. Thus, SERS combines molecular fingerprint specificity with potential single-molecule sensitivity. Due to the recent development of new SERS-active substrates, labeling and derivatization chemistry as well as new instrumentations, SERS became a very promising tool for many varied applications, including bioanalytical studies and sensing. Both intrinsic and extrinsic SERS biosensing schemes have been employed to detect and identify small molecules, nucleic acids and proteins, and also for cellular and in vivo sensing.