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 …

The nonradiative conversion of light energy into heat (photothermal therapy, PTT) or sound
energy (photoacoustic imaging, PAI) has been intensively investigated for the treatment and …

Chirality is a unifying structural metric of biological and abiological forms of matter. Over the
past decade, considerable clarity has been achieved in understanding the chemistry and …

Osteomyelitis, as a severe bone disease caused by bacterial infection, can result in lifelong
disability or fatal sepsis. Considering that the infection is stubborn and deep-sited in bone …

Surface plasmons are coherent and collective electron oscillations confined at the dielectric–
metal interface. Benefitting from the inherent subwavelength nature of spatial profile, surface …

The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on
nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical …

Solar-driven seawater desalination has received massive attention as it holds great promise
to solve the worldwide freshwater and energy issues. The key of this technology relies on …

In photoacoustic imaging, the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window is where tissue
generates the least background signal. However, the large size of the few available contrast …

Laser synthesis emerges as a suitable technique to produce ligand-free nanoparticles,
alloys and functionalized nanomaterials for catalysis, imaging, biomedicine, energy and …

Conspectus Gold nanorods (Au NRs) are an exceptionally promising tool in nanotechnology
due to three key factors:(i) their strong interaction with electromagnetic radiation, stemming …