Achieving mastery over the synthesis of metal nanocrystals has emerged as one of the
foremost scientific endeavors in recent years. This intense interest stems from the fact that …

Gold nanorods have been receiving extensive attention owing to their extremely attractive
applications in biomedical technologies, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, and optical …

Noble metal nanoparticles are capable of confining resonant photons in such a manner as
to induce coherent surface plasmon oscillation of their conduction band electrons, a …

This review presents the basic concepts and recent developments and advances of gold
nanoparticle (AuNP)-catalyzed 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) reduction to 4-aminophenol (4-AP) by …

Metal nanoparticles have been the subject of widespread research over the past two
decades. In recent years, noble metals have been the focus of numerous studies involving …

The plasmon resonances and other optical properties of elemental noble and alkali metal
nanoparticles have generated enormous scientific interest. 1r11 There are numerous …

We show that thermal treatment of small Au seeds results in extensive twinning and a
subsequent drastic improvement in the yield (> 85%) of formation of pentatwinned …

One frontier approach of colloidal chemistry to nanoscale entities capable to exhibit
enhanced or even unconventional physical–chemical properties as well as diversified …

Pt-modified Au nanorods (NRs) synthesized by anisotropic overgrowth were used for
producing H2 under visible and near-infrared light irradiation. The Pt-tipped sample …

In this paper, we demonstrated that Au nanorods coated with a shell composed of Pt
nanodots (Au@ Pt nanostructures) exhibited intrinsic oxidase-like, peroxidase-like and …