title: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: a half-century historical perspective†
Creators: name: Yi, Jun
name: You, En-Ming
name: Hu, Ren
name: Wu, De-Yin
name: Liu, Guo-Kun
name: Yang, Zhi-Lin
name: Zhang, Hua
name: Gu, Yu
name: Wang, Yao-Hui
name: Wang, Xiang
name: Ma, Hao
name: Yang, Yang
name: Liu, Jun-Yang
name: Fan, Feng Ru
name: Zhan, Chao
name: Tian, Jing-Hua
name: Qiao, Yu
name: Wang, Hailong
name: Luo, Si-Heng
name: Meng, Zhao-Dong
name: Mao, Bing-Wei
name: Li, Jian-Feng
name: Ren, Bin
name: Aizpurua, Javier
name: Apkarian, Vartkess Ara
name: Bartlett, Philip N.
name: Baumberg, Jeremy
name: Bell, Steven E. J.
name: Brolo, Alexandre G.
name: Brus, Louis E.
name: Choo, Jaebum
name: Cui, Li
name: Deckert, Volker
name: Domke, Katrin F.
name: Dong, Zhen-Chao
name: Duan, Sai
name: Faulds, Karen
name: Frontiera, Renee
name: Halas, Naomi
name: Haynes, Christy
name: Itoh, Tamitake
name: Kneipp, Janina
name: Kneipp, Katrin
name: Le Ru, Eric C.
name: Li, Zhi-Peng
name: Ling, Xing Yi
name: Lipkowski, Jacek
name: Liz-Marzán, Luis M.
name: Nam, Jwa-Min
name: Nie, Shuming
name: Nordlander, Peter
name: Ozaki, Yukihiro
name: Panneerselvam, Rajapandiyan
name: Popp, Jürgen
name: Russell, Andrea E.
name: Schlücker, Sebastian
name: Tian, Yang
name: Tong, Lianming
name: Xu, Hongxing
name: Xu, Yikai
name: Yang, Liangbao
name: Yao, Jianlin
name: Zhang, Jin
name: Zhang, Yang
name: Zhang, Yao
name: Zhao, Bing
name: Zenobi, Renato
name: Schatz, George C.
name: Graham, Duncan
name: Tian, Zhong-Qun
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has evolved significantly over fifty years into a powerful analytical technique. This review aims to achieve five main goals. (1) Providing a comprehensive history of SERS's discovery, its experimental and theoretical foundations, its connections to advances in nanoscience and plasmonics, and highlighting collective contributions of key pioneers. (2) Classifying four pivotal phases from the view of innovative methodologies in the fifty-year progression: initial development (mid-1970s to mid-1980s), downturn (mid-1980s to mid-1990s), nano-driven transformation (mid-1990s to mid-2010s), and recent boom (mid-2010s onwards). (3) Illuminating the entire journey and framework of SERS and its family members such as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) and shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SHINERS) and highlighting the trajectory. (4) Emphasizing the importance of innovative methods to overcome developmental bottlenecks, thereby expanding the material, morphology, and molecule generalities to leverage SERS as a versatile technique for broad applications. (5) Extracting the invaluable spirit of groundbreaking discovery and perseverant innovations from the pioneers and trailblazers. These key inspirations include proactively embracing and leveraging emerging scientific technologies, fostering interdisciplinary cooperation to transform the impossible into reality, and persistently searching to break bottlenecks even during low-tide periods, as luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.