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 …

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

Driven by functionality and purity demand for applications of inorganic nanoparticle colloids
in optics, biology, and energy, their surface chemistry has become a topic of intensive …

Biomimetic science has attracted great interest in the fields of chemistry, biology, materials
science, and energy. Biomimetic mineralization is the process of synthesizing inorganic …

The irradiation of gold nanorod colloids with a femtosecond laser can be tuned to induce
controlled nanorod resha**, yielding colloids with exceptionally narrow localized surface …

In recent years, Moore's law had a remarkable effect on predicting the development of
semiconductor technology. As the size of devices shrinks to micro scale or nano scale, Intel's …

Conspectus The vast majority of the outstanding applications of metal nanoparticles (NPs)
developed during the last two decades have arisen from their unique optical properties …

Interaction of light pulses of various durations and intensities with nanoscale photonic
structures plays an important role in many applications of nanophotonics for high‐density …

Optical metasurfaces, planar subwavelength nanoantenna arrays with the singular ability to
sculpt wavefront in almost arbitrary manners, are poised to become a powerful tool enabling …

The emerging use of laser irradiation in synthesis smartly bridges “nanotechnology” and
“light”, and has attracted enormous attention as an efficient synthetic methodology for …