US Patent Issued on Oct. 28 for "Substrate with magnetic layer for SERS, methods for their preparation and uses thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,244, issued on Oct. 28.

"Substrate with magnetic layer for SERS, methods for their preparation and uses thereof" was invented by Stephanie Gallant (Mount Pearl, Canada) and Erika Merschrod (St. John's, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates, for example, to substrates for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), to methods for their preparation and to uses of such SERS substrates in methods for the detection of an analyte in a sample. The SERS substrates of the present application comprise a support material, a layer of a SERS-active metal on the support material, and a layer of magnetically active n...