Chemical Sensing Innovations

Our advanced technology delivers rapid, label-free, and highly sensitive chemical sensors, designed to meet your unique requirements

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Sense the future

We offer rapid, label-free, and highly sensitive chemical sensing solutions leveraging our cutting-edge surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technology. These versatile sensors cater to a broad spectrum of uses such as pharmaceutical research, food quality assurance, environmental surveillance, the identification of infectious diseases, pathological analysis, forensic investigations, and beyond.

Since its inception in the 1970s, SERS has established itself as an effective method for sensitive, label-free chemical analysis, capitalizing on molecular vibration measurements in test samples. Boasting a more compact design, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness, SERS stands out against traditional analytical techniques such as X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry. SERS provides several orders of magnitude higher sensitivity than inherently weak Raman scattering by exciting localized surface plasmon resonance on metal substrates. Nonetheless, SERS's full potential has historically been undermined by inconsistent sensing results.

Our innovative approach to SERS confronts this longstanding issue head-on, enhancing the technology to deliver unparalleled measurement consistency and reliability. This leap forward propels SERS into new frontiers across various sectors, including industry, healthcare, and defense, thus paving the way for groundbreaking advancements in chemical detection and analysis. We are proud to be at the forefront, channeling these pivotal innovations directly to you.

Technology

Our unique products are based on innovative SERS technology developed at the University of Tokyo. Read related papers about the technology.

Carbon nanowires for SERS

A nanostructure composed of porous carbon nanowires with high chemical enhancement, high sensing reproducibility, high durability, and high surface homogeneity

Metal-free SERS

A review about recent developments and new opportunities for metal-free SERS

Flexible/wearable SERS with gold

An ultrathin, bio-integretable gold nanomesh with high Raman signal enhancement and high sensing reproducibility

Flexible/wearable SERS with silver

An ultrathin, broadband-capable silver nanomesh with high Raman signal enhancement and high sensing reproducibility

Carbon-based SERS theory

A comprehensive theory of SERS based on multidimensional carbon materials

Place & Play SERS

A highly simple, label-free sensing scheme without the need for sample collection and preparation

Tamitake Itoh

Chief Senior Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

"The metal-free carbon substrate is ideal for biological applications because it is less likely to denature biomolecules and provides million-fold Raman signal enhancement."

Kuniharu Takei

Professor, Osaka Metropolitan University

"Wearable SERS shows great promise for deployment in multi-parameter measurement of living organisms without markers!"

Cheng Lei

Professor, Wuhan University

"LucasLand's polymer/carbon-based SERS is a game changer and makes SERS really useful for biomedical applications!"

What is SERS?

SERS (Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy) is a sensitivity-enhanced version of Raman spectroscopy, a laser-based method for label-free chemical analysis. Its primary advantage over other analytical methods is extreme simplicity. Simply irradiate the sample with light and detect the scattered light. That will tell you what is in the sample.

When a sample is irradiated with light, the light is scattered at a different wavelength from the incident light due to the inherent molecular vibration of the molecules in the sample. This effect is called Raman scattering (C. V. Raman received the 1930 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the effect). The scattered light is detected and measured to identify the molecules in the sample. This analytical method is called Raman spectroscopy. Compared to other analytical methods such as fluorescence detection, X-ray analysis, NMR analysis, and mass spectrometry, Raman spectroscopy is very simple and does not require prior knowledge of the composition of the sample, but it suffers from low sensitivity because only one out of a million incident photons is Raman-scattered. SERS solves this low-sensitivity problem by placing the sample on a metal nanostructure, where the interaction of the incident light with the metal nanostructure causes an electromagnetic-field enhancement due to an effect called localized surface plasmon resonance, which greatly enhances the Raman-scattered light by several orders of magnitude or higher and is used to identify molecules in the sample with high sensitivity.

Products

Our specialized SERS offerings are tailored to your individual chemical analysis requirements. The standout feature of our SERS products is their exceptional measurement reproducibility, ensuring consistent and reliable results. Additionally, we supply compact, portable Raman spectrometers that perfectly complement in situ SERS analyses. For those new to SERS or Raman spectroscopy, we suggest starting with one of our combined sets, which includes a SERS product and a portable Raman spectrometer. This pairing is all you require to harness the full capabilities of SERS technology, providing a seamless and efficient analysis experience.

LL-GN-01: Gold Nanomesh SERS Sheet (Large)

World's first ultrathin, stretchable, bio-integretable flexible/wearable SERS sheet with strong electromagnetic enhancement (large area)

LL-GN-02: Gold Nanomesh SERS Sheet (Small)

World's first ultrathin, stretchable, bio-integretable flexible/wearable SERS sheet with strong electromagnetic enhancement (small area)

LL-SN-01: Silver Nanomesh SERS Sheet (Large)

World's first ultrathin, stretchable, ultrabroadband-capable flexible/wearable SERS sheet with strong electromagnetic enhancement (large area)

LL-SN-02: Silver Nanomesh SERS Sheet (Small)

World's first ultrathin, stretchable, ultrabroadband-capable flexible/wearable SERS sheet with strong electromagnetic enhancement (small area)

LL-CP-01: Conducting Polymer SERS Substrate

World's first non-metal SERS substrate with high sensing reproducibility, high bio-compatibility, high durability, and strong chemical enhancement

LL-PR-01: Nano-LB Raman Spectrometer

Portable, handy, lightweight, miniature Raman spectrometer that can be carried around and is well-matched with SERS

LL-PR-02: Belt-Wearable Raman Spectrometer

Portable, handy, belt-wearable Raman spectrometer that can be worn on a belt and carried around and is well-matched with SERS

Team

We are a mixture of talented managers, scientists, and engineers to respond to your chemical sensing needs.

Tetsuro Furuya

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Keisuke Goda

Chief Scientific Officer & Founder

Yasutaka Kitahama

Engineer

Ting-Hui Xiao

Technical Advisor

Prabhat K. Dwivedi

Technical Advisor

Contact

Send us an e-mail, give us a call, or visit us if you have any questions about our technology or products.

Headquarters:

LucasLand, Co. Ltd.
3-28-5 Ogawamachi, Kanda
Axle Ochanomizu C01
Chiyoda City, Tokyo 101-0052
Japan

R&D Center:

LucasLand, Co. Ltd.
7-3-1 Hongo, Room 206
Molecular & Life Innovation Building
Bunkyo City, Tokyo 113-0003
Japan