US Patent Issued to Nanyang Technological University on March 11 for "Platform for stand-off and real-time SERS sensing of airborne analytes" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,924, issued on March 11, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Platform for stand-off and real-time SERS sensing of airborne analytes" was invented by Xing Yi Ling (Singapore) and Gia Chuong Phan Quang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a composite material suitable for use in surface-enhanced Raman scattering, the material comprising a substrate layer having a surface; a plurality of layers of core-shell particles formed on the surface of the substrate layer, wherein the core is formed from a plasmonic metal nanoparticle, and the shell is formed from a metal-organic framework (MOF...