Applications of Shell-Isolated Nanoparticle-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

The surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is mainly used as an analysis or detection tool of biological and chemical molecules. Since the last decade, alternative branch SERS effect has been explored, named shell-isolated nanoparticle spectroscopy (SHINERS) which was discovered in 2010. In SHINERS, plasmonic cores are for enhancing signal molecules, a very thin shell silica generally employed improving thermal stability that great interest specific case catalytic reactions under difficult conditions. Moreover, thanks to its surface sensitivity, SHINERS can enable investigation at liquid–solid interfaces. two years (2019–2020), recent insights this field were reported. Thus, mini-review centered on applications with CO other reactions, molecules ions.