The Raman spectroscopy channel covers research into all aspects of this non-destructive technique including surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and related applications such as drug detection, forensics, environmental analysis, art and archaeology research, food quality analysis, homeland security, cancer research and material science.

It is possible to tune gold nanoparticles with peptides for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in such a way as to side step the problematic stages inherent to other approaches to nanoplasmonic structures for analyte detection, according to Italian researchers.
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Read MoreSurface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is about to make computerized smart systems that deliver drugs to hospital patients intravenously that much safer. Smart IV systems can deliver precise volumes at a precise rate, but they lack a critical ingredient to ensuring that the patient is not inadvertently harmed: they cannot know what concentration of drug has been added to the system nor can then confirm that it is even the correct drug being delivered.
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Sep 30, 2013
The Raman and SERS spectra of a black dyed silk were measured based on isolated samples of Bombyx mori silk fibroin, its motif peptide component (GAGAGS) and the synthetic reactive black 5 dye.
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Sep 2, 2013
Selected minerals from oval inclusions in the Morasko IAB iron meteorite have been investigated by electron microprobe and micro-Raman spectroscopy.
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Supplementary information to the recently published title, "Surfaced-Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy" by Ricardo Aroca, University of Windsor, Canada.
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View All Education ArticlesThe Journal of Raman Spectroscopy is an international journal dedicated to the publication of original research at the cutting edge of all areas of science and technology related to Raman spectroscopy. The journal seeks to be the central forum for documenting the evolution of the broadly-defined field of Raman spectroscopy that includes an increasing number of rapidly developing techniques and an ever-widening array of interdisciplinary applications.
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The unique chemical, mechanical, electrical, and optical properties of graphene and other nano-materials require powerful and comprehensive characterization methods.
David Baldwin, John Birkett, Owen Facey, Gilleon Rabey
Jul 19, 2013
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Oct 8, 2013
In the next of this occasional series, can you work out the trivial name of this compound?
Date: Mar 28, 2013
Eileen Skelly Frame from Instrument News talks with Senova CEO, Lee Leonard, about the pHit calibration-free pH meter which won this year's Pittcon Editors' Award Gold Medal.