Our latest review on TERS has been published in Nature Reviews Methods Primer
Great collaborative effort between Jena, San Sebastian, Minas Gerais and Xian!
CZS funds a “wild” combination of geology, spectroscopy and nano science… See also
06.09.2023,
Two new PhD’s from the Nanospectroscopy group: Congratulations Kourosh and Erwan Well done!
06.09.2023,
Find our correlated tip-enhanced Raman and nano-mechanical properties investigation on potential drug carrier in our article in Small. Again a fruitful SFB Polytarget collaboration with our partners in the Schacher Group. 
Copyright Christiane Höppener
15.11.2022,
Xiaobin Yao's recent work in Small shows a nice way to prevent decomposition of samples on SERS substrates - and incidentally reveals a possible degradation mechanism on such substrates.
14.06.2022,
Dr. Wei Wang won the Leibniz-IPHT award. Congratulations William, well deserved. 
25.11.2021,
Chanjiang Scholarship awarded to Volker Deckert 
Volker Deckert has been appointed as Chair Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program at the Shaanxi Normal University until 2024. Together with his host Professor Zhenglong Zhang, a former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow now at the Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory of SNNU, they will use this great opportunity for teaching and collaborating on nanoscale optics and spectroscopy.
29.01.2021,
Check out the new video explaining the goals of the Polytarget collaborative research center.
21.12.2020,
New Image video of the Chemical Faculty.
28.09.2020,
A straight forward laser readout approach helps to improve the sensitivity of lateral flow assays. A first application on SARS-CoV-2 antibody detection demonstrates its quantitative detection potential. Last not least an inspiring international experience lead by IQSE at Texas A&M: See our new article in Appl. Phys. Lett.
06.04.2020,
The combination of tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) and force-distance curves allows to correlate material property and structure of polymer nano particles. See our latest publication in Small about this collaborative effort between us and the Schacher group.
12.03.2020,
Our latest research on quantitative near-field plasmon evaluation in Light: Science and Application is online, showing how simultaneous detection of Stokes/Anti_Stokes signals in TERS allows the in situ assessment of plasmon and temperature parameters.
12.03.2020,
The chemical effect goes resonant – a full quantum mechanical approach on TERS. Great effort by our colleagues in Theoretical Chemistry towards full understanding of high resolution TERS data - and a nice collaboration in the frame work of the CRC/SFB 1375 NOA 
07.02.2020,
Plasmon induced deprotonation - a nice correlation to our previous results has been accepted by the Analyst: The advanced article is available now Singh et al. Analyst, 2020, Advance Article.
03.02.2020,
Our collaborative work with the Yoshitake group, on nano diamond composite films is out and featured in Scilight. See the full manuscript at Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 041601 (2020).
27.05.2019
Die nächste Forschergeneration am Institut für Physikalische Chemie. Besuch der Klasse 7g1 vom Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium in Jena.
23.05.2019
Big News! New Collaborative Research Center (SFB) Nonlinear optics down to atomic scales will be supported by the German Science Foundation. Congratulations to the organisers and all participants! Details here press release
19.03.2019
Our results on TERS and PiFM correlation on MoS2 are available: Synergy of Photoinduced Force Microscopy and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy—A Correlative Study on MoS2.
09.01.2019
ASAP article in JACS by He et al.: Tip-Enhanced Raman Imaging of Single-Stranded DNA with Single Base Resolution - very nice collaboration
03.09.2018
We are proud that Marie received the Young Researchers Award at ICORS 2018 on Jeju island.
18.05.2018
Congratulations to the organisers and all participants! New Collaborative Research Center (Transregio) between Ulm and Jena “CataLight” will be supported by the German Science Foundation.
18.03.2018
Our latest review on "Latest instrumental developments and bioanalytical applications in tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy” has been published in TrAC. Congratulations Robert and Xiaobin. The article can be downloaded for free until May 7th!
20.02.2018
Protein Handshake on the Nanoscale: How Albumin and Hemoglobin self assemble into Nanohybrid Fibers! a collaboration between our colleagues from material sciences and us. The nano scale investigation of the proteins self assemble will help to design bio inspired fibers with tailored properties. press release
Recent publication
Kasia’s and Ludovic’s paper on the AFM supported Raman investigation of fatty acid uptake of single cells has been just published in The Analyst! Congratulations on the joint effort and hopefully the beginning of a closer cooperation between the Raman Imaging Group in Krakow and Jena…
