Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy at single-molecule scale and its implications in biology

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1611, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Yuling ^a   Irudayaraj, Joseph ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological sciences; Hot spot; Nanotechnology; Single molecule; Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; RESOLUTION; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SENSOR;

EID: 84871675581     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0026     Document Type: Review

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