Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Chiral nanophotonic materials are promising candidates for biosensing applications
because they focus light into nanometer dimensions, increasing their sensitivity to the …

Chiral assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles are known for strong circular dichroism but not
for high optical asymmetry, which is limited by the unfavorable combination of electrical and …

Conspectus Chirality exists as a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, from molecular level l-
amino acids, d-sugar, secondary structures of proteins, DNA, RNA, and nanoscale helices to …

Chiral Au nanorods (c-Au NRs) with diverse architectures constitute an interesting
nanospecies in the field of chiral nanophotonics. The numerous possible plasmonic …

Plasmonic gap nanostructures (PGNs) have been extensively investigated mainly because
of their strongly enhanced optical responses, which stem from the high intensity of the …

Determining the structural chirality of biomolecules is of vital importance in bioscience and
biomedicine. Conventional methods for characterizing molecular chirality, eg, circular …

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have attracted the particular attention of nanoscience and
nanoengineering due to their unique localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) …

Conspectus Current interest in nanoparticle ensembles is motivated by their collective
synergetic properties that are distinct from or better than those of individual nanoparticles …

Integrating nanoscale building blocks of low dimensionality (0D; ie, spheres) into higher
dimensional structures endows them and their corresponding materials with emergent …