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Conventional SERS probes suffer from limited brightness and poor reproducibility and stability making them unsuitable for routine in vivo applications. A novel class of layered SERS probes is demonstrated in which individual nanostructures host electromagnetic hotspots, thus increasing brightness by more than two orders magnitude compared to conventional individual nanostructures.
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