“…To date, different metal nanoparticles, such as gold nanospheres, gold nanorods, silver nanospheres, silver nanoprisms, core/shell Au@Ag nanospheres, and core/shell Au@Ag nanorods, have been used as etching-based plasmonic sensors. Etching-based plasmonic sensors incorporating these nanoparticles have been used to detect various targets including DNA, (Ma et al, 2016;Malile and Chen, 2013;Yang et al, 2014) proteins, (Cheng et al, 2016;Guo et al, 2016b;Liang et al, 2015a;Lu et al, 2016;Yang et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2015b;Zhao et al, 2016) metal ions, (Chang et al, 2017;Chemnasiri and Hernandez, 2012;Chen et al, 2016bChen et al, , 2016cChen et al, , 2009Chen et al, , 2013bJin and Han, 2014;Lan and Lin, 2014;Liu et al, 2013c;Wang et al, 2014;Yao et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2014aZhang et al, , 2014bZhu et al, 2016) anions, (Chen et al, 2015(Chen et al, , 2012bHe and Yu, 2015;Li et al, 2011Li et al, , 2015Liu et al, 2013a;Sasikumar and Ilanchelian, 2017;Tripathy et al, 2011;Xin et al, 2012;Zeng et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2015aZhang et al, , 2016 and glucose, (Jang and Min, 2015;Lin et al, 2016;…”