Abstract The International Year of The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements revealed that the Table remains both a deeply fundamental paradigm for various branches of chemistry and a universal practical tool for predictable design of new materials. Silver is a notable “nanoelement” particularly known by its plasmonic properties. A key advantage of this metal is an easily achievable morphological variety of nanostructured materials. This element represents a research branch of precise engineering of shapes and sizes of nanoparticle ensembles and smart hierarchic nanostructures. In the review, unique features of silver are discussed with respect to the development of novel analytical methods for forthcoming applications of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) in ecology, biology and medicine.

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纯银作为元素周期表中独特的等离子体金属的软化学

摘要 化学元素周期表国际年表明，该表仍然是化学各个分支的深刻基础范式，也是新材料可预测设计的通用实用工具。银是一种著名的“纳米元素”，尤其以其等离子体特性而闻名。这种金属的一个关键优势是易于实现的纳米结构材料的形态多样性。该元素代表了纳米粒子集合和智能分层纳米结构的形状和尺寸的精确工程的研究分支。在这篇综述中，针对表面增强拉曼光谱 (SERS) 在生态学、生物学和医学中即将应用的新型分析方法的开发，讨论了银的独特特征。