Recently, a large number of experimental and theoretical works have revealed a variety of
plasmonic nanostructures with the capabilities of Fano resonance (FR) generation. Among …

In this paper, we review spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), a common-path, phase-
shifting interferometer, built onto a phase-contrast microscope, with white-light illumination …

Nanophotonics, and more specifically plasmonics, provides a rich toolbox for biomolecular
sensing, since the engineered metasurfaces can enhance light–matter interactions to …

Near-field infrared spectroscopy by elastic scattering of light from a probe tip resolves optical
contrasts in materials at dramatically subwavelength scales across a broad energy range …

The increasing complexity of composite materials structured on the nanometer scale
requires highly sensitive analytical tools for nanoscale chemical identification, ideally in …

This paper introduces a procedure aimed to quantitatively measure the optical properties of
nanoparticles, namely the complex polarizability and the extinction, scattering, and …

Hydrogenases are among the fastest H2 evolving catalysts known to date and have been
extensively studied under in vitro conditions. Here, we report the first mechanistic …

This study demonstrates the unique capability of infrared near-field nanoscopy combined
with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy to map phase distributions in microcrystals of Li …

Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) has been playing more
and more important roles in investigating electromagnetic properties of various materials …

The M13 bacteriophage (M13 phage) has emerged as an attractive bionanomaterial due to
its chemistry/gene modifiable feature and unique structures. Herein, a dynamic deformable …