Surface-enhanced Raman scattering has been widely used for chemical sensing, even though the large nonlinearity of the effect makes reproducible sensing difficult. A DNA-based assembly technique now offers a means of precise engineering of gap distances in nanoparticle dumbbells for a robust surface-enhanced Raman sensing of DNA and RNA molecules.
- Dong-Kwon Lim
- Ki-Seok Jeon
- Yung Doug Suh