Cover Picture: SERS Labels for Red Laser Excitation: Silica-Encapsulated SAMs on Tunable Gold/Silver Nanoshells (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 11/2009)

Silica‐encapsulated SAMs …︁ (self‐assembled monolayers) on tunable Au/Ag nanoshells are described by S. Schlücker et al. in their Communication on page 1950 ff. These systems show great potential as labels for surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in bioanalytical and biomedical applications with red laser excitation, for example, in assays and microscopy. This method combines the spectroscopic advantages of SAMs with the stability of glass shells. Silica‐encapsulated SAMs …︁ (self‐assembled monolayers) on tunable Au/Ag nanoshells are described by S. Schlücker et al. in their Communication on page 1950 ff. These systems show great potential as labels for surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in bioanalytical and biomedical applications with red laser excitation, for example, in assays and microscopy. This method combines the spectroscopic advantages of SAMs with the stability of glass shells.