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ArticleScience advances2026

The optical nose: Monolayer sensitization of Au surfaces for plasmonic gas sensing.

Elle W Wyatt, Sarah May Sibug-Torres, Marika Niihori, James W Beattie, Tabitha Jones, Nicolas Spiesshofer, Jana Hofmann, Bart de Nijs, Jeremy J Baumberg

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9 authors.

Elle W WyattNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0009-0002-5372-8217
Sarah May Sibug-TorresNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6015-4090
Marika NiihoriNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.
James W BeattieNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4028-0150
Tabitha JonesNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7864-2263
Nicolas SpiesshoferNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0009-0003-8131-5230
Jana HofmannNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0009-0004-7716-0333
Bart de NijsPhysics for Sustainable Chemistry Group, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8234-723X
Jeremy J BaumbergNanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, JJ Thompson Avenue, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0US, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9606-9488

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Robust real-time gas sensing is important for many fields, including agriculture and health care analysis of breath/biofluid volatiles. Ammonia is ambiently present at parts per billion (ppb) to parts per million (ppm) levels, but current detection technologies suffer long measurement times, instability, cost, and issues with selectivity. Here, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is markedly improved through precision precleaning protocols, which allow surface sensitization of the metal facets using a water monolayer. Harnessing monolayer aggregates of densely packed gold nanoparticles with sub-nanometer spacing defined by rigid scaffolding molecules gives sub-ppm detection of ammonia at room temperature. Accessing the poorly studied high-wave number [>2500 per centimeter (cm

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