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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) applied to cancer diagnosis and detection of pesticides, explosives, and drugs

• Pedro H.B. Aoki

  Pedro H.B. Aoki has a degree in Physics from the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP – 2008). In 2010, he obtained his MSc degree in Science and Technology of Materials (POSMAT) at the same university. He is now a PhD student working on nanostructured film fabrication and characterization, especially micro-Raman and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), toward sensing and biosensing applications.

  , Leonardo N. Furini

  Leonardo N. Furini has a BSc in Physics from Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS – 2010). He received his Masters in Science and Technology Materials from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP – 2012). Nowadays, he is doing his PhD in interaction mechanisms between a fungicide and mimetic systems with the development of sensors for its detection, at the same university.

  , Priscila Alessio

  Priscila Alessio has a degree in Physics from Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP – 2005) and received her MSc in Science and Technology of Materials (POSMAT) from the same university in 2008. She is now doing her PhD focussing on sensors, mainly those based on electrical impedance spectroscopy with nanostructured films as transducer elements (electronic-tongue type) and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS).

  , Alvaro E. Aliaga

  Alvaro E. Aliaga Ceron is a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP, Brazil). He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chile in 2011 (UCh, Chile). His research interests include spectroscopic methods (infrared, Raman, and SERS) for the identification/characterization of chemical and biological materials (peptides, proteins, amphiphiles, pollutants, drugs, modified electrodes).

  and Carlos J.L. Constantino

  Carlos J.L. Constantino has a BSc in Physics (IFQSC/USP, Sao Carlos, Brazil – 1993) and in Production and Materials Engineering (UFSCar, Sao Carlos, Brazil – 1997). He has a Masters in Applied Physics (IFSC/USP, Sao Carlos, Brazil – 1995) and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (IFSC/USP, Sao Carlos, Brazil – 1999). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Windsor University (Canada – 2001), Embrapa (Sao Carlos, Brazil – 2002), and Universidad de Valladolid (Spain – 2009). Nowadays, he is an Associate Professor at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP – Presidente Prudente, Brazil). The research fields of Dr. Constantino involve spectroscopic characterization of materials by micro-Raman and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), nanostructured thin films of organic materials for sensing and optical devices, and polymeric films for engineering applications.