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 …

Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

Sunlight-driven H2 generation is a central technology to tackle our impending carbon-based
energy collapse. Colloidal photocatalysts consisting of plasmonic and catalytic …

Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

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 …

The creation of matter with varying degrees of complexities and desired functions is one of
the ultimate targets of self-assembly. The ability to regulate the complex interactions …

Metal colloids are of great interest in the field of nanophotonics, mainly due to their
morphology-dependent optical properties, but also because they are high-quality building …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

Gold nanorods have been the first successful example of anisotropic plasmonic
nanostructure synthesized by wet chemistry. 1 Since the early 2000s, they have received …

Regulation of hot spots exhibits excellent potential in many applications including
nanolasers, energy harvesting, sensing, and subwavelength imaging. Here, hat-shaped …