Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for pharmaceutical analysis

Pharmaceutical products usually comprise of active ingredients and a number of excipients The amount of the actual drug can be very small and hence there is a need for highly sensitive and specific techniques for quantitative and qualitative analysis Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is introduced as a particularly promising tool in this context For example, it can be employed for analyzing pharmaceutical products, but it can also help to better understand the interactions between pharmaceutically active compounds with pathogenic germs and biological organisms and, thereby, it may contribute to the development of target-specific treatments, e g for the currently spreading corona virus disease, COVID-19