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COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS
Volume 470, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214711
Keywords
Nanoplasmonics; Raman spectroscopy; Metal nanoparticles; SERS tags; Diagnosis; Therapeutics
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- University of Sydney
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21975005]
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Recent advances in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) have led to the development of SERS tags, which offer significant promise for sensitive and selective detection in medical applications. These tags utilize electromagnetic and chemical enhancement mechanisms to amplify signals, providing high sensitivity, low detection limits, and good selectivity.
Recent advances in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) have offered great promise for the early -stage diagnosis of life-threatening diseases by in vivo sensing and imaging techniques as well as a treat-ment and evaluation of its efficacy. The SERS technique makes use of specially designed tags made up of a metallic nanoparticle, a Raman reporter molecule, a biocompatible protection layer, and a sensing layer, realizing the signal amplification by the electromagnetic enhancement (EE) originating from the plasmon excitation of metal nanostructures and chemical enhancement (CE) owing to chemical interactions and photon-induced charge transfer between the metal and target molecule. These SERS tags have been pro-ven to be a promising candidate for medical applications compared to other conventional techniques because of their high sensitivity, low detection limit, good selectivity, high photostability, low interfer-ences from biological matrices, and multiplexing capabilities. As a result, there has been a surge in the reports for developing SERS tags for molecular diagnostics, immunoassays, biomarker detection, and drug screening applications. Here, we review the recent progress made in the development of SERS tags, including the preparation strategies and properties of SERS tags. The multiple uses of SERS tags in the detection of biomarkers, proteins, cancer and stem cells, cell labeling drug delivery, photothermal ther-apy, and multimodal imaging techniques have also been reviewed and discussed. Finally, we provide a forward look at how SERS tags may overcome their limitations to guide future SERS tags design with clin-ical outcomes. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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