Stabilization of silver and gold nanoparticles: preservation and improvement of plasmonic functionalities

H Kang, JT Buchman, RS Rodriguez, HL Ring… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Noble metal nanoparticles have been extensively studied to understand and apply their
plasmonic responses, upon coupling with electromagnetic radiation, to research areas such …

Advances in colloidal assembly: the design of structure and hierarchy in two and three dimensions

N Vogel, M Retsch, CA Fustin, A Del Campo… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
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 …

A colloidoscope of colloid-based porous materials and their uses

KR Phillips, GT England, S Sunny, E Shirman… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature evolved a variety of hierarchical structures that produce sophisticated functions.
Inspired by these natural materials, colloidal self-assembly provides a convenient way to …

Measurement of the distribution of site enhancements in surface-enhanced Raman scattering

Y Fang, NH Seong, DD Dlott - Science, 2008 - science.org
On nanotextured noble-metal surfaces, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is
observed, where Raman scattering is enhanced by a factor, Ḡ, that is frequently about one …

Theoretical studies of plasmonics using electronic structure methods

SM Morton, DW Silverstein, L Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
There has been a great interest in understanding the interactions between light and noble
metal nanoparticles ever since Michael Faraday's study of the ruby-red color of colloidal …

Sensing using plasmonic nanostructures and nanoparticles

J Langer, SM Novikov, LM Liz-Marzán - Nanotechnology, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Nanoparticles are widely used in various fields of science and technology as well as in
everyday life. In particular, gold and silver nanoparticles display unique optical properties …

Understanding the molecule− surface chemical coupling in SERS

SM Morton, L Jensen - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009 - ACS Publications
The enhancement mechanism due to the molecule-surface chemical coupling in surface-
enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been characterized using time-dependent density …

Surface enhanced Raman scattering of nanoporous gold: Smaller pore sizes stronger enhancements

LH Qian, XQ Yan, T Fujita, A Inoue, MW Chen - Applied physics letters, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The authors report the surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) of nanoporous gold with
nanopore sizes ranging from 5 to 700 nm⁠. Their comprehensive investigations prove that …

From soft to hard: the generation of functional and complex colloidal monolayers for nanolithography

N Vogel, CK Weiss, K Landfester - Soft Matter, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Take polymer colloids—simple to make and ubiquitously available—let them self-assemble
into a monolayer and you have, readily engineered, a sophisticated mask to create highly …

Combinatorial and high-throughput development of sensing materials: the first 10 years

RA Potyrailo, VM Mirsky - Chemical Reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
Chemical and biological sensors have found their niche among modern analytical
instruments when real-time determination of the concentration of specific sample …