All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

This review highlights recent efforts on applying electron microscopy (EM) to soft (including
biological) nanomaterials. We will show how developments of both the hardware and …

Despite the traditional plasmonic materials are counted on one hand, there are a lot of
possible combinations leading to alloys with other elements of the periodic table, in …

Light has emerged as a promising new reagent in chemical reactions, especially in
enhancing the performance of metal nanoparticle catalysts. Certain metal nanoparticles …

The green synthetic method has remarkably been used to synthesize many types of
nanostructures, such as nanoparticles and nanocomposites, due to simple, inexpensive …

Food safety, particularly concerning foods contaminated by toxic chemicals, has emerged as
a pervasive societal concern. The prevalence of food contaminants has spurred both …

Hydrogen sensors are a prerequisite for the implementation of a hydrogen economy due to
the high flammability of hydrogen–air mixtures. They are to comply with the increasingly …

Understanding the nature of hot carrier pathways following surface plasmon excitation of
heterometallic nanostructures and their mechanistic prevalence during …

Alloying offers an increasingly important handle in nanomaterials design in addition to the
already widely explored size and geometry of nanostructures of interest. As the key trait, the …

Hot carriers generated by the non-radiative decay of localized surface plasmon resonance
(LSPR) of noble metal nanoparticles are widely investigated in applications ranging from …