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Finding enzymatic gold on silver surfaces

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Surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering enables rapid and sensitive identification of lipase activity and enantioselectivity on dispersed silver nanoparticles.

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Figure 1: A diagram of the surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERRS) measurement of enzyme activity.

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