Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

The colloidal domain is characterized by the dimensions of its constituents in the range from
several nanometers to micrometers. Often, these individual entities are organized in …

Plasmonic materials can generate strong electromagnetic fields to boost the Raman
scattering of surrounding molecules, known as surface-enhanced Raman scattering …

Single molecule surface enhanced Raman scattering (SM-SERS) is a highly local effect
occurring at sharp edges, interparticle junctions and crevices or other geometries with a …

Under the right process conditions, nanoparticles can cluster together to form defined,
dispersed structures, which can be termed supraparticles. Controlling the size, shape, and …

Engineering hotspots is of crucial importance in many applications including energy
harvesting, nano-lasers, subwavelength imaging, and biomedical sensing. Surface …

Clusters in systems as diverse as metal atoms, virus proteins, noble gases, and nucleons
have properties that depend sensitively on the number of constituent particles. Certain …

Plasmonic nanoparticles made of gold and silver have attracted a great deal of research
attention in various fields, such as biosensors, imaging, therapy, nanophotonics, catalysis …

The scalable synthetic route to colloidal atoms has significantly advanced over the past two
decades. Recently, colloidal clusters with DNA‐coated cores called “patchy colloidal …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has become a widely used spectroscopic
technique for chemical identification, providing unbeaten sensitivity down to the single …