“…However, the laser-based formation of semiconductor–metallic nanocomposites (NCs) with required performance is still a challenging task and is a very young direction of research in the laser–matter interaction field. Only recently, this easy way of merging semiconductor and metallic elements in one nanoparticle owing to the laser-assisted interaction was developed and demonstrated [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ]. As a result, colloidal solutions containing surfactant-free compound nanostructures were formed and successfully tested for light-to-heat conversion [ 19 ] or surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) biosensing.…”