Product Description
This volume focuses on Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). Single molecular spectroscopies are increasingly important today because of the increased emphasis on single molecule studies in much modern analytical research. In this respect, SERS offers unique functions such as the ability to detect, identify and characterise simple and complex analytes in a variety of matrices, at very low concentration levels. It is for these reasons that SERS is an increasingly active area for research and study in the academic community. This new book features fundamental research into the physical/chemical origins of the SERS effect: can a unified theory be produced? Synthesis and characterisation of novel SERS substrates; including the synthesis of artefacts providing reproducible SERS enhancements, quantitative detection at ultra-low concentrations; how close is this aim and what is still required to achieve it? The in-situ combination of SERS with other probe microscopy techniques, including tip-enhanced Raman techniques, the future challenges for SERS, particularly with respect to single molecule detection and characterisation and comparison of the strengths and weaknesses of competing technologies.







