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This themed collection highlights cutting-edge and emerging developments in surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) through the lens of materials innovation. We welcome contributions on the design and synthesis of advanced SERS substrates using automation, high-throughput methods, or computational and AI-driven tools for guided optimization, as well as those focused on application-driven challenges that motivate the rational design of next-generation SERS materials. Studies exploring unconventional strategies to improve SERS performance via materials design, such as chirality, strong coupling, quantum effects, or engineered charge transfer, are encouraged. We also invite work on TERS and nanoscale Raman imaging, as well as research that provides new insights into adsorption and interfacial dynamics. The scope includes:

New Approaches to the Design and Synthesis of SERS Substrates

• Automation, reaction-space exploration, and high-throughput/robotic synthesis for SERS substrates: intelligent discovery, optimization, and scalable production.
• Integration of AI, machine learning, and computational models for intelligent substrate optimization. Strong emphasis on explainable AI/ML frameworks to improve reliability and translation in fields of application.
• Problem-driven materials design and discovery: How limitations in SERS applications can directly inform targeted nanomaterial design.

Unconventional Tailoring of SERS Selectivity and Sensitivity

• Chirality (intrinsic or ligand-induced) for enhancing SERS selectivity beyond conventional surface functionalization.
• Quantum plasmonic effects, strong coupling, engineered charge transfer and other unconventional SERS amplification strategies.

TERS and Nanoscale Imaging

• Advances in tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) and correlated nanoscale imaging.
• In situ or operando probing of interfacial processes, catalytic reactions, and surface reactivity.

Molecular Adsorption and Interfacial Dynamics

• Computational and experimental probing of adsorption, orientation, and interfacial dynamics to inform rational SERS substrate design for improved sensitivity and selectivity.

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The Editorial Office and Guest Editors reserve the right to check the suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online, and they will be published in a regular issue of鈥�Materials Advances.鈥�