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From lab to field: Surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based sensing strategies for on-site analysis

Journal

TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 146, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2021.116488

Keywords

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering; On-site analysis; Sample collection; Signal ampli fication; Signal readout

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [21635005, 21890741]
  2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020M683717]
  3. Postdoctoral Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [2020Z142]
  4. State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science [SKLACLS2104]

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This review summarizes and evaluates recent works on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based on-site analysis in the past five years. It provides an overview of the analytical workflow and various application scenes, and discusses future challenges and development trends. The review serves as a guide for researchers and engineers in exploring novel testing strategies for field analysis.
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) owns high sensitivity, excellent selectivity and strong resistance to water and air, and can be used for nondestructive detection by portable equipment without tedious sample pretreatment. These merits make SERS an attractive choice for on-site analysis. Nowadays, more and more SERS-based sensing strategies have been established to increase the sensitivity and selectivity, as well as simplify operation processes and reduce testing cost for field analysis. These lead to the rapid development in research and commercialization. However, SERS-based on-site analysis is still in the early stage and needs to be further exploited. In this review, we summarize and evaluate the related works in recent five years from the aspect of analytical work flow, which consists of three parts: target signal collection, target signal amplification and target signal readout. Then, five different application scenes of these sensing strategies including medical diagnosis, environmental protection, food safety, forensic analysis and cultural relics protection are introduced, followed by the discussion of challenges and development tendency for future works. This comprehensive review will provide the design guidelines for researchers and engineers to explore novel testing strategies on field, which may eventually promote the launch of commercial products for our daily life. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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