Gold nanorods and their plasmonic properties

H Chen, L Shao, Q Li, J Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Gold nanorods have been receiving extensive attention owing to their extremely attractive
applications in biomedical technologies, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, and optical …

Nanomaterials for optical data storage

M Gu, Q Zhang, S Lamon - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
The growing amount of data that is generated every year creates an urgent need for new
and improved data storage methods. Nanomaterials, which have unique mechanical …

Two-photon absorption and photoluminescence of colloidal gold nanoparticles and nanoclusters

J Olesiak-Banska, M Waszkielewicz… - Chemical society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
This review provides a comprehensive description of nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of
gold nanoparticles, which can be used in biological applications. The main focus is placed …

Plasmonic nanoantennas: fundamentals and their use in controlling the radiative properties of nanoemitters

V Giannini, AI Fernández-Domínguez, SC Heck… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
When light interacts with a metal nanoparticle (NP), its conduction electrons can be driven
by the incident electric field in collective oscillations known as localized surface plasmon …

Single-particle study of Pt-modified Au nanorods for plasmon-enhanced hydrogen generation in visible to near-infrared region

Z Zheng, T Tachikawa, T Majima - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
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 …

Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation

P Biagioni, JS Huang, B Hecht - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation can strongly enhance the interaction of light
with nanoscale matter by their ability to efficiently link propagating and spatially localized …

Gold nanorods: from synthesis and properties to biological and biomedical applications

X Huang, S Neretina, MA El‐Sayed - Advanced materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Plasmon-enhanced formic acid dehydrogenation using anisotropic Pd–Au nanorods studied at the single-particle level

Z Zheng, T Tachikawa, T Majima - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic bimetal nanostructures can be used to drive the conventional catalytic reactions
efficiently at low temperature with the utilization of solar energy. This work developed Pd …

Properties and applications of colloidal nonspherical noble metal nanoparticles

TK Sau, AL Rogach, F Jäckel, TA Klar… - Advanced …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Nanoparticles of noble metals belong to the most extensively studied colloidal systems in
the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Due to continuing progress in the synthesis of …

Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods

P Zijlstra, JWM Chon, M Gu - nature, 2009 - nature.com
Multiplexed optical recording provides an unparalleled approach to increasing the
information density beyond 1012 bits per cm3 (1 Tbit cm-3) by storing multiple, individually …