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 …

Surface‐enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy provides a noninvasive and
highly sensitive route for fingerprint and label‐free detection of a wide range of molecules …

Active plasmonics is a burgeoning and challenging subfield of plasmonics. It exploits the
active control of surface plasmon resonance. In this review, a first-ever in-depth description …

Future precision medicine will be undoubtedly sustained by the detection of validated
biomarkers that enable a precise classification of patients based on their predicted disease …

Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) are of great scientific interest because of the size effect
associated with their magnetic properties and, even more so, because of their wide-ranging …

Responsive optical nanomaterials that can sense and translate various external stimuli into
optical signals, in the forms of observable changes in appearance and variations in spectral …

Colorimetric detection is important for various applications where instant and convenient
read-out is needed. Because of their fascinating optical properties, plasmonic …

The relationship between composition and plasmonic properties in noble metal nanoalloys
is still largely unexplored. Yet, nanoalloys of noble metals, such as gold, with transition …

Using the time-dependent density functional theory, we perform quantum calculations of the
electron dynamics in small charged metallic nanoparticles (clusters) of spherical geometry …

We demonstrate the fabrication of novel functional gel coatings with randomized physical
and chemical patterns that enable dual encoding ability to realize unclonable optical tags …