Surface plasmonic functional materials have been widely used in biology, chemistry, environmental monitoring, physical optics, energy catalysis/conversion, human health, and other fields. Among these, plasmonic sensors, as an important research field, exhibit excellent application advantages and significant commercial value with high sensitivity and flexibility based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) or local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects. The local near-field enhanced by plasmon leads to the increase of light absorption, radiation, or scattering of molecules or quantum emitters located near plasma nanostructures, which is the basis of surface/tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It has been widely used in plasma-enhanced light-matter interactions, such as enhanced optical force, light-matter coupling, and quantum and nonlinear effects. As an effective and powerful analytical tool, surface plasmonic sensors exhibit the advantages of fast identification, real-time analysis, label-free, sensitive and selective detection, portability, and, more importantly, simplicity in identifying target analytes.
This Research Topic aims to contribute to the design and synthesis of functional plasmonic nanostructures to achieve and promote a clear understanding of surface plasmon resonances and the applications of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy and flexible wearable sensors, elucidating the fundamental structure-function relationships and promoting the development of sensing devices in interdisciplinary research.
These subject areas include but are not limited to:
• Design and synthesis of novel functional, flexible plasmonic sensors (including but not limited to soft plasmonic metamaterials, superlattices nanosheets, organic semiconductor films, noble metal-based nanohybrids Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) substrates, etc.)
• Surface(Tip)-enhanced Raman scattering, Raman spectroscopy, (L)SPR effect, nanophotonic, in-situ Raman
• Study on SERS enhancement mechanism and regulation strategy
• Wearable SERS sensors, flexible SERS biofilms for non-destructive POCT, food safety, sweat (tear) analysis
•Micro-nano array patterned processing technology, superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic surfaces, ultra-trace droplet SERS platform
•Multifunctional optical plasmonic nanomaterials interdisciplinary research with the fields of electrochemistry, mechanical mechanics, soft energy devices, bioengineering and microelectronics devices, etc.
Surface plasmonic functional materials have been widely used in biology, chemistry, environmental monitoring, physical optics, energy catalysis/conversion, human health, and other fields. Among these, plasmonic sensors, as an important research field, exhibit excellent application advantages and significant commercial value with high sensitivity and flexibility based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) or local surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) effects. The local near-field enhanced by plasmon leads to the increase of light absorption, radiation, or scattering of molecules or quantum emitters located near plasma nanostructures, which is the basis of surface/tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It has been widely used in plasma-enhanced light-matter interactions, such as enhanced optical force, light-matter coupling, and quantum and nonlinear effects. As an effective and powerful analytical tool, surface plasmonic sensors exhibit the advantages of fast identification, real-time analysis, label-free, sensitive and selective detection, portability, and, more importantly, simplicity in identifying target analytes.
This Research Topic aims to contribute to the design and synthesis of functional plasmonic nanostructures to achieve and promote a clear understanding of surface plasmon resonances and the applications of plasmon-enhanced spectroscopy and flexible wearable sensors, elucidating the fundamental structure-function relationships and promoting the development of sensing devices in interdisciplinary research.
These subject areas include but are not limited to:
• Design and synthesis of novel functional, flexible plasmonic sensors (including but not limited to soft plasmonic metamaterials, superlattices nanosheets, organic semiconductor films, noble metal-based nanohybrids Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) substrates, etc.)
• Surface(Tip)-enhanced Raman scattering, Raman spectroscopy, (L)SPR effect, nanophotonic, in-situ Raman
• Study on SERS enhancement mechanism and regulation strategy
• Wearable SERS sensors, flexible SERS biofilms for non-destructive POCT, food safety, sweat (tear) analysis
•Micro-nano array patterned processing technology, superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic surfaces, ultra-trace droplet SERS platform
•Multifunctional optical plasmonic nanomaterials interdisciplinary research with the fields of electrochemistry, mechanical mechanics, soft energy devices, bioengineering and microelectronics devices, etc.
