Waqas Ahmad , Muhammad Zareef , Min Chen , Yi Xu , Jingjing Wang , Quansheng Chen
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Abstract
The extensive use of antibiotics has led to residues seeping into the food chain and water supplies, creating a hidden yet pervasive threat. To control antibiotic residues and prevent the silent spread of resistance, it is essential to use modern technologies for their detection. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based detection offers molecular fingerprint signatures enabling differentiation among structurally related antibiotics. Thus, the current review oversees an up-to-date coverage of the advances in SERS-antibiotics detection in foodstuffs, water, and biological matrices. The study systematically (i) categorizes all groups of antibiotics (quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides, aminoglycoside, amphenicols, β-lactams, nitrofuran, macrolides and nitroimidazoles); (ii) evaluates nanosubstrate design, novelty, detection (label/label-free) modes, experimental bands assignment, mechanism, orientation on the substrate, and other routine SERS metrics; and finally (iii) highlight limitations and future trends in antibiotic-SERS detection. The review will be applicable in diverse fields of chemical (bio)sensors, analytical chemistry, materials science, food science, and environmental monitoring.
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TrAC publishes succinct and critical overviews of recent advancements in analytical chemistry, designed to assist analytical chemists and other users of analytical techniques. These reviews offer excellent, up-to-date, and timely coverage of various topics within analytical chemistry. Encompassing areas such as analytical instrumentation, biomedical analysis, biomolecular analysis, biosensors, chemical analysis, chemometrics, clinical chemistry, drug discovery, environmental analysis and monitoring, food analysis, forensic science, laboratory automation, materials science, metabolomics, pesticide-residue analysis, pharmaceutical analysis, proteomics, surface science, and water analysis and monitoring, these critical reviews provide comprehensive insights for practitioners in the field.