Colloidal self-assembly approaches to smart nanostructured materials

Z Li, Q Fan, Y Yin - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Colloidal self-assembly refers to a solution-processed assembly of nanometer-/micrometer-
sized, well-dispersed particles into secondary structures, whose collective properties are …

Bioinspired additive manufacturing of hierarchical materials: From biostructures to functions

J Wei, F Pan, H **, K Yang, Y Wang, Q Wang, Z Fu - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Throughout billions of years, biological systems have evolved sophisticated, multiscale
hierarchical structures to adapt to changing environments. Biomaterials are synthesized …

Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Chiral inorganic nanostructures

W Ma, L Xu, AF de Moura, X Wu, H Kuang, C Xu… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Symmetry-breaking-induced plasmonic exceptional points and nanoscale sensing

JH Park, A Ndao, W Cai, L Hsu, A Kodigala, T Lepetit… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Singularities of open systems, known as exceptional points (EPs), have been shown to
exhibit increased sensitivities, but the observation of EPs has so far been limited to …

Electric Fano resonance-based terahertz metasensors

R Wang, L Xu, J Wang, L Sun, Y Jiao, Y Meng, S Chen… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
An ultra-sensitive THz metasensor is presented based on quasi-BIC Fano resonance, which
can distinguish extremely dilute concentrations (nM) of solutions. It provides a …

Deep learning meets nanophotonics: a generalized accurate predictor for near fields and far fields of arbitrary 3D nanostructures

PR Wiecha, OL Muskens - Nano letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Deep artificial neural networks are powerful tools with many possible applications in
nanophotonics. Here, we demonstrate how a deep neural network can be used as a fast …

All-dielectric metasurface analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency

Y Yang, II Kravchenko, DP Briggs, J Valentine - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Metasurface analogues of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) have been a
focus of the nanophotonics field in recent years, due to their ability to produce high-quality …

Optical second harmonic generation in plasmonic nanostructures: from fundamental principles to advanced applications

J Butet, PF Brevet, OJF Martin - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
Plasmonics has emerged as an important research field in nanoscience and
nanotechnology. Recently, significant attention has been devoted to the observation and the …

Localized surface plasmon resonance biosensing: current challenges and approaches

S Unser, I Bruzas, J He, L Sagle - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) has emerged as a leader among label-free
biosensing techniques in that it offers sensitive, robust, and facile detection. Traditional …