Background Foodborne disease is a great concern to low- and middle-income countries. To prevent illness and death, intervention strategies need to be implemented across the food safety system and should include promoting the adoption of safe food handling practices. The positive association...

Appropriately integration of encapsulating plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) in functionalized nanoshells to enable the monitoring of free and complexed heavy metals with enhanced sensitivity and stability is desired and challenging. In this study, we reported arc-produced few-layered graphite...