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Present and future of surface-enhanced Raman scattering
2020, Langer, Judith, de Aberasturi, Dorleta Jimenez, Aizpurua, Javier, Alvarez-Puebla, Ramon A., Auguié, Baptiste, Baumberg, Jeremy J., Bazan, Guillermo C., Bell, Steven E.J., Boisen, Anja, Brolo, Alexandre G., Choo, Jaebum, Cialla-May, Dana, Deckert, Volker, Fabris, Laura, Faulds, Karen, de Abajo, F. Javier García, Goodacre, Royston, Graham, Duncan, Haes, Amanda J., Haynes, Christy L., Huck, Christian, Itoh, Tamitake, Käll, Mikael, Kneipp, Janina, Kotov, Nicholas A., Kuang, Hua, Le Ru, Eric C., Lee, Hiang Kwee, Li, Jian-Feng, Ling, Xing Yi, Maier, Stefan A., Mayerhöfer, Thomas, Moskovits, Martin, Murakoshi, Kei, Nam, Jwa-Min, Nie, Shuming, Ozaki, Yukihiro, Pastoriza-Santos, Isabel, Perez-Juste, Jorge, Popp, Juergen, Pucci, Annemarie, Reich, Stephanie, Ren, Bin, Schatz, George C., Shegai, Timur, Schlücker, Sebastian, Tay, Li-Lin, Thomas, K. George, Tian, Zhong-Qun, Van Duyne, Richard P., Vo-Dinh, Tuan, Wang, Yue, Willets, Katherine A., Xu, Chuanlai, Xu, Hongxing, Xu, Yikai, Yamamoto, Yuko S., Zhao, Bing, Liz-Marzán, Luis M.
The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical techniques. Significant experimental and theoretical effort has been directed toward understanding the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect and demonstrating its potential in various types of ultrasensitive sensing applications in a wide variety of fields. In the 45 years since its discovery, SERS has blossomed into a rich area of research and technology, but additional efforts are still needed before it can be routinely used analytically and in commercial products. In this Review, prominent authors from around the world joined together to summarize the state of the art in understanding and using SERS and to predict what can be expected in the near future in terms of research, applications, and technological development. This Review is dedicated to SERS pioneer and our coauthor, the late Prof. Richard Van Duyne, whom we lost during the preparation of this article.
Raman Signal Enhancement Tunable by Gold-Covered Porous Silicon Films with Different Morphology
2020, Agafilushkina, Svetlana N., Žukovskaja, Olga, Dyakov, Sergey A., Weber, Karina, Sivakov, Vladimir, Popp, Jürgen, Cialla-May, Dana, Osminkina, Liubov A.
The ease of fabrication, large surface area, tunable pore size and morphology as well surface modification capabilities of a porous silicon (PSi) layer make it widely used for sensoric applications. The pore size of a PSi layer can be an important parameter when used as a matrix for creating surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) surfaces. Here, we evaluated the SERS activity of PSi with pores ranging in size from meso to macro, the surface of which was coated with gold nanoparticles (Au NPs). We found that different pore diameters in the PSi layers provide different morphology of the gold coating, from an almost monolayer to 50 nm distance between nanoparticles. Methylene blue (MB) and 4-mercaptopyridine (4-MPy) were used to describe the SERS activity of obtained Au/PSi surfaces. The best Raman signal enhancement was shown when the internal diameter of torus-shaped Au NPs is around 35 nm. To understand the role of plasmonic resonances in the observed SERS spectrum, we performed electromagnetic simulations of Raman scattering intensity as a function of the internal diameter. The results of these simulations are consistent with the obtained experimental data