Xiaoyu Yang, Shunbi Xie, Runzi Zhang, Yao Liu, Weifen Wu, Yi He
{"title":"An efficient SERS detection platform based on roseate petal homochiral nanogold (Au RHNs) as substrate for sensitive detection of plastics in environmental water samples.","authors":"Xiaoyu Yang, Shunbi Xie, Runzi Zhang, Yao Liu, Weifen Wu, Yi He","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125642","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125642","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Excessive plastic consumption can pose potential risks to the human respiratory and circulatory systems, leading to various diseases. Therefore, the sensitive detection of plastics holds significant implications for ensuring food safety, environmental protection, and human health. Conducting tests on rivers and drinking water can ensure their compliance with relevant safety standards, thereby mitigating the potential environmental and health risks associated with plastic pollution. In this experiment, we prepared a roseate petal homochiral nanogold (Au RHNs) as a surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate for detecting plastics in the water. Due to the intricate rose petal-like surface and structures with symmetry breaking, which result in a large surface area, the mean enhancement factor (EF) of the Au RHNs was determined to be 8.4696 × 10<sup>5</sup>. The Au RHNs as the SERS substrate were used to test the plastic polyethylene (PE) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC), with the detection limits of 0.0986 mg/mL and 0.0975 mg/mL, respectively. Moreover, the prepared Au RHNs substrate were successfully applied for ananlyzing analyze actual samples (tap water, mineral water, river water), yielding a satisfactory recovery rate. The exceptional performance of Au RHNs as a SERS detection substrate indicated its promising potential for practical detection of plastic samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125642"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142901565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arumugam Selva Sharma, Rithwik Pradeep, Amal Wilson Varghese, Roy Joseph, Anoopkumar Thekkuveettil
{"title":"Mechanistic insights into the competitive inhibition of enzyme-mimetic activity of gold nanoparticles for dual mode colorimetric and fluorescence detection of biothiols.","authors":"Arumugam Selva Sharma, Rithwik Pradeep, Amal Wilson Varghese, Roy Joseph, Anoopkumar Thekkuveettil","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125656","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125656","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this work, the interaction behaviour of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with o-phenylenediamine (OPD) was studied to ascertain the nanozyme-substrate interaction. The UV-Vis absorption, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and zeta potential analysis revealed that the electron-rich nitrogen atoms in OPD showed a stronger affinity toward electron-deficient surface, indicating a stronger interaction between nanozyme and substrate molecules. Subsequently, under optimum conditions, AuNPs are used as nanozyme to catalyze the oxidation of OPD in the presence of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>. The catalyzed product (2,3-diaminophenazine, (DAP)) generated visible colorimetric readout (yellow color) and showed yellow fluorescence upon excitation at 450 nm. The nanozyme-based oxidation reaction of OPD was then applied to detect glutathione (GSH) by colorimetric and fluorometric techniques. The detection principle is based on the fact that GSH being a thiol-containing moiety can readily interact with AuNPs and considerably decrease the catalytic activity of nanoparticles. In the presence of varying concentrations (1-15 µM) of GSH, the formation of DAP is significantly decreased leading to a decrease in the absorbance and fluorescence intensity at 450 nm and 540 nm, respectively. The colorimetric and fluorescence assay for GSH exhibited a limit of detection of 3.42 and 2.01 µM, respectively. Kinetic studies were conducted to elucidate the inhibition mechanism of GSH on the catalytic function of AuNPs. To demonstrate the practical applicability of the nanozyme-based assay, GSH detection in artificial urine samples were carried out.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125656"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Convolutional neural network-assisted Raman spectroscopy for high-precision diagnosis of glioblastoma.","authors":"Jiawei He, Hongmei Li, Bingchang Zhang, Gehao Liang, Liang Zhang, Wentao Zhao, Wenpeng Zhao, Yue-Jiao Zhang, Zhan-Xiang Wang, Jian-Feng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125615","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125615","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most lethal intracranial tumor with a median survival of approximately 15 months. Due to its highly invasive properties, it is particularly difficult to accurately identify the tumor margins intraoperatively. The current gold standard for diagnosing GBM during surgery is pathology, but it is time-consuming. Under these circumstances, we developed a method combining Raman spectroscopy (RS) with convolutional neural networks (CNN) to distinguish GBM. Analysis of the spectra of normal brain samples (478 spectra) and GBM samples (462 spectra) from 29 in situ intracranial tumor-bearing mice showed that this method identified GBM tissue with 96.8 % accuracy. Subsequently, spectral analysis of 23 normal human brain tissues (223 spectra) versus 21 tissues from patients with pathologically diagnosed GBM (267 spectra) revealed that the accuracy of this method was 93.9 %. Most importantly, for the difference peaks in the spectra of GBM and normal brain tissue, the common difference peaks in the mouse and human spectra were at 750 cm<sup>-1</sup>, 1440 cm<sup>-1</sup>, and 1586 cm<sup>-1</sup>, which emphasized the differences in cytochrome C and lipids between GBM samples and normal brain samples in both mice and human. The preliminary results showed that CNN-assisted RS is simple to operate and can rapidly and accurately identify whether it is GBM tissue or normal brain tissue.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125615"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142901566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Afifa Yousuf, Asad Ullah, Syeda Qirat Ul Hussain, Muhammad Arif Ali, Muhammad Arshad
{"title":"Spectroscopic studies and Non-Linear optical response through C/N replacement and modulation of electron Donor/Acceptor Units on naphthyridine derivatives.","authors":"Afifa Yousuf, Asad Ullah, Syeda Qirat Ul Hussain, Muhammad Arif Ali, Muhammad Arshad","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125582","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores the nonlinear optical (NLO) and photophysical properties of newly designed naphthyridine derivatives by density functional theory (DFT). The first hyperpolarizability (β<sub>tot</sub>), a key indicator of NLO activity, varies significantly depending on the substituent groups. N-substituted compounds (IUB-N series) generally show lower β<sub>tot</sub> values, while compounds with electron donor/acceptor groups (IUB-P series) demonstrate a broader range, with IUB-A-02 achieving the highest β<sub>tot</sub> value of 16,362 a.u. due to the presence of two -NH<sub>2</sub> groups. TD-DFT analysis confirms key electronic transitions, mostly from HOMO to LUMO, with absorption wavelengths (λmax) ranging from 349.596 to 440.692 nm for the IUB-P series. The introduction of electron-donor groups considerably boosts absorption, particularly in IUB-P-06, with highest λ<sub>max</sub> and oscillator strength (f<sub>o</sub>) signifying excellent light absorption capabilities. The calculated light harvesting efficiency (LHE) correlates strongly with f<sub>o</sub> values, IUB-N-01 to IUB-N-05 exhibiting higher LHE than the unsubstituted IUB. Additionally, lower radiative lifetimes (τ) for the modified compounds indicate faster decay, useful for applications in photodynamic therapy and fluorescence imaging. Lower transition energy (ΔE) and higher f<sub>o</sub> values contributed to greater first hyperpolarizability (β<sub>o</sub>). IUB-P-06, with two -NH<sub>2</sub> donor groups, shows the lowest ΔE (2.81 eV) and a correspondingly high β<sub>o</sub> (60218.89 a.u.). Whereas IUB-A-02 exhibits the highest β<sub>o</sub> (68907.84 a.u.) due to its large dipole moment change (Δμ = -6.37 D). Among N-substituted compounds, IUB-N-01 exhibits the highest charge density. IUB-P-06 has the highest charge density and electron-hole separation due to electron donor/acceptor groups, indicating a higher degree of internal atomic localization. This enhanced charge separation further confirms the superior performance of these compounds in NLO applications. In conclusion, this comprehensive analysis spanning ESP, TD-DFT, TLM, LHE, and TDM demonstrates that the studied naphthyridine derivatives possess promising NLO properties and exhibit strong potential for use in optoelectronics, photovoltaics, photodynamic therapy, and other advanced optical technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125582"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142848759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fatemeh Alinejad, Zahra Khoshbin, Mohammad Ramezani, Mona Alibolandi, Khalil Abnous, Seyed Mohammad Taghdisi
{"title":"A label-free DNAzyme-Mediated biosensor for fluorescent detection of Lead (II) ion.","authors":"Fatemeh Alinejad, Zahra Khoshbin, Mohammad Ramezani, Mona Alibolandi, Khalil Abnous, Seyed Mohammad Taghdisi","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125627","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125627","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lead ion (Pb<sup>2+</sup>) is a common environmental contaminant, extremely toxic, persistent, and easily adsorbed, concentrated, and enriched by agricultural products. Ingestion of this ion can result in health problems for humans, including neurological disorders, heart disease, brain damage, and mental deficiency. In this research, a sensitive fluorescent biosensing method for detecting Pb<sup>2+</sup> was developed using DNAzyme as the target recognition element and SYBR Green (SG) fluorescent dye as the signal indicator. Through catalytic action on a strand of DNA with ribo-adenine (rA), the DNAzyme was able to cut it in the presence of Pb<sup>2+</sup>. This led to the removal of intercalation sites for SG molecules, resulting in a decrease in fluorescence response. The newly developed biosensor was capable of identifying Pb<sup>2+</sup> ions within a range of 0.1-600 µM with a detection limit of 0.018 µM. This label-free fluorescent biosensor proved to be both convenient and efficient in accurately measuring the levels of Pb<sup>2+</sup> ions in blood serum and milk samples, yielding recovery rates between 96.81 % and 100.00 %. The DNAzyme-based biosensor offers an economical and easy-to-use sensing assay for Pb<sup>2+</sup> ion.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125627"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142901563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Highly efficient NIR-Ⅱ window photoluminescence up to 1000 nm using heteroatomic fused-ring radicals.","authors":"Jun-Yang Hui, Hai-Ping Zhou, Ying Sun, You-Liang Li, Qing-Qing Pan, Yu-He Kan, Zhong-Min Su","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125592","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125592","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neutral radicals have the potential to construct pure organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with internal quantum efficiencies reaching 100%. However, neutral radical luminescent materials with emission wavelengths in the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window are rare. Herein, a serial of neutral donor-bridge-acceptor (D-π-A) type radical derivatives are investigated. The dominant elements influencing the luminescent properties of neutral radicals, such as chemical stability, excited state characteristics, radiative decay rate (k<sub>r</sub>) and internal conversion rate (k<sub>IC</sub>) constants are taken into consideration. Theoretical calculations reveal that introducing heteroatomic fused-rings into neutral radicals can modulate the chemical stability and result in a red shift of the emission wavelength spectrum. In the presence of charge transfer characteristics, by increasing the effective overlap between the hole and electron wavefunctions, the k<sub>r</sub> constants of the neutral D-π-A type radicals increase. In addition, avoiding the geometric relaxation between the lowest excited state (D<sub>1</sub>) and the ground state (D<sub>0</sub>), as well as reducing electron-vibration coupling and non-adiabatic coupling in the low-frequency region can effectively decrease the k<sub>IC</sub> constants. Our study proposes an innovative design approach aiming to develop stable and efficient NIR-II window neutral radical luminescent materials utilizing heteroatomic fused-rings as key elements.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125592"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142848540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing fluorescent covalent organic frameworks through regulation of link bond for selective detection of Al<sup>3+</sup> and Ce<sup>3</sup>.","authors":"Yingwei Gao, Shuo Zhang, Bo Ge, Hui Zhao, Chuanyu Jin, Hui Yan, Limin Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125620","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The high thermal stability and chemical durability of amide-linked covalent organic frameworks (amide COFs) make them a promising material for a range of new applications. Nevertheless, the low reversibility of the amide bond presents a significant challenge to the direct synthesis of amide-bonded COFs. In this paper, we present a simple method for synthesizing amide COFs. The synthesis of imine-linked COFs was initially achieved through the reaction of 2,4,6-tris(4-aminophenyl)-1,3,5-triazine and 2,5-dimethoxybenzene-1,4-dicarboxaldehyde. Subsequently, amide COFs were synthesized via the oxidation of the imine bond into an amide bond, utilizing ammonium persulfate as the oxidizing agent. Due to the difference of link bond, two COFs separately displayed distinct and significant fluorescence enhancement for Al<sup>3+</sup> and Ce<sup>3+</sup>, which was highly sensitive and less affected by environmental factors. The strategy offers a novel approach to the convenient and environmentally benign synthesis of amide COFs, which may facilitate their wider applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125620"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142911174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M M Noureena, Arulmozhi Puhazhendhi, Soumya Sivalingam, A S Anu, N Vinod Kumar, D Rithesh Raj
{"title":"L-tryptophan carbon dots as a fluorescent probe for malachite green detection.","authors":"M M Noureena, Arulmozhi Puhazhendhi, Soumya Sivalingam, A S Anu, N Vinod Kumar, D Rithesh Raj","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125625","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125625","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Development of a rapid and sensitive detection method for hazardous dyes attracts considerable research interest. In this work, L-Tryptophan-based Carbon dots were developed as a fluorescence sensor for the detection of Malachite green (MG). Green fluorescent L-Trp-C-dots were synthesized by a simple pyrolysis technique using L-Trp as the starting precursor. L-Trp-C-dots exhibited different quenching responses to MG, and other interfering species, consequently offering a selective strategy to detect MG. The proposed sensor shows a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.06 μM and a limit of quantification (LOQ) of 0.22 μM with in the linearity range of 0 to 60 µM concentration. Additionally, the relative standard deviation (RSD) was found to be below 1.7 %. Furthermore, the recovery of MG from the real-time samples (green peas) was investigated.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142904682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aya Saad Radwan, Mohamed A El Hamd, Mahmoud El-Maghrabey, Lateefa A Al-Khateeb, Wael A Mahdi, Sultan Alshehri, Wejdan T Alsaggaf, Safaa F Saleh, Angum M M Ibrahim, Bandar R Alsehli, Galal Magdy
{"title":"Ultrasensitive analysis of the commonly abused CNS antitussive, dextromethorphan in biological fluids and dosage forms using a novel micellar-sensitized spectrofluorimetric approach: Compliance with greenness and blueness metrics.","authors":"Aya Saad Radwan, Mohamed A El Hamd, Mahmoud El-Maghrabey, Lateefa A Al-Khateeb, Wael A Mahdi, Sultan Alshehri, Wejdan T Alsaggaf, Safaa F Saleh, Angum M M Ibrahim, Bandar R Alsehli, Galal Magdy","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125644","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125644","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study introduces the first micellar-enhanced spectrofluorimetric approach for the estimation of the commonly abused CNS antitussive, dextromethorphan (DXM) in its syrup and biological fluids. A micellar solution of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) containing DXM showed high native fluorescence emission at 305 nm following excitation at 224 nm. Using SDS as a micellar system resulted in about a 2.5-fold increase in the drug's fluorescence intensity and quantum yield as well as the sensitivity of the approach. A thorough investigation was conducted into the experimental factors affecting the studied drug's spectrofluorimetric behavior. Additionally, the quantum yield of DXM was calculated, and it was found to reach up to 22 %. A calibration plot with a straight line was produced across the concentration range of 10.0-200.0 ng/mL. The suggested approach demonstrated excellent sensitivity down to the nanogram level, with 1.80 ng/mL for the detection limit and 5.47 ng/mL for the quantification limit. The drug under study was successfully analyzed in syrup using the designed approach, which yielded low %RSD values (≤0.882) and high %recoveries (99.20-101.00). The efficacy of the suggested fluorimetric technique in detecting DXM in human plasma and urine samples has been demonstrated with excellent recovery (98.12-101.35) and %RSD (≤1.39) values owing to its high sensitivity and selectivity. As DXM is one of the most commonly abused CNS antitussives, the capacity of the proposed method for its analysis in biological fluids can provide further insights for monitoring its potential abuse. The excellent greenness and eco-friendliness of the method were confirmed using GAPI and AGREE metrics, while the BAGI tool assessed its economy, practicality, and applicability. The method was fully validated according to ICH Q2 (R2) guidelines.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125644"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142908165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marc Vermeulen, Claudia Conti, Pavel Matousek, Lora V Angelova, Alessandra Botteon
{"title":"Unravelling hidden text and figures in paper-based archival documents with micro-spatially offset Raman spectroscopy imaging.","authors":"Marc Vermeulen, Claudia Conti, Pavel Matousek, Lora V Angelova, Alessandra Botteon","doi":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125591","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.saa.2024.125591","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The preservation of paper-based archival documents is crucial for safeguarding historical and cultural heritage. Some records possess visually inaccessible text or images because of previous conservation measures, their method of construction, or historic damage. Micro-spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (micro-SORS) has emerged as a promising method for probing below or through opaque material substrates non-invasively. This study explores the potential of micro-SORS to image hidden text and figures in paper-based archival documents, utilizing Raman signals, fluorescence emissions, and overall spectral intensity reflecting also sample absorption. We present case studies involving sealed letters and playing cards from historical collections, demonstrating the efficacy of micro-SORS in identifying pigments and deciphering hidden ink writings. Results show the successful mapping of vermilion pigment in playing cards and reconstruction of hidden iron gall ink text in sealed letters. Chemometric analysis further enhances the visualization of hidden text. Despite challenges such as the absence of Raman signal of the target materials, micro-SORS proves to be a valuable tool for accessing hidden information in paper-based artifacts, aiding in preservation efforts and historical research.</p>","PeriodicalId":94213,"journal":{"name":"Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy","volume":"329 ","pages":"125591"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142873633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}