Reproducible, shelf-stable, and bioaffinity SERS nanotags inspired by multivariate polyphenolic chemistry for bacterial identification

Efficient identification of pathogenic bacteria is greatly concerned with microbial food safety and foodborne diseases diagnosis. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) tags are among the cutting-edge tools for bioanalysis, but facing troubles in either SERS sensitivity, durability, interfering signals, or universal recognition agents for target bacteria. This work proposed a multivariate scheme enabled by polyphenolic chemistry for the green...