Gold nanorods: the most versatile plasmonic nanoparticles

J Zheng, X Cheng, H Zhang, X Bai, R Ai… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

Basic concepts and recent advances in nitrophenol reduction by gold-and other transition metal nanoparticles

P Zhao, X Feng, D Huang, G Yang, D Astruc - Coordination Chemistry …, 2015 - Elsevier
This review presents the basic concepts and recent developments and advances of gold
nanoparticle (AuNP)-catalyzed 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) reduction to 4-aminophenol (4-AP) by …

Plasmonic photocatalysis: activating chemical bonds through light and plasmon

V Jain, RK Kashyap, PP Pillai - Advanced Optical Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The exceptionally large charge‐carrier density in photoexcited plasmonic nanoparticles
(NPs) can be used for the making and breaking of high‐energy chemical bonds, which forms …

[HTML][HTML] Anisotropic gold nanoparticles: A survey of recent synthetic methodologies

JE Ortiz-Castillo, RC Gallo-Villanueva… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have very important and unique applications in a
wide range of fields, including optical sensing, biomedicine, and chemical catalysis, among …

Approaches to single-nanoparticle catalysis

JB Sambur, P Chen - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Nanoparticles are among the most important industrial catalysts, with applications ranging
from chemical manufacturing to energy conversion and storage. Heterogeneity is a general …

Nanoscale surface curvature effects on ligand–nanoparticle interactions: a plasmon-enhanced spectroscopic study of thiolated ligand adsorption, desorption, and …

E Villarreal, GG Li, Q Zhang, X Fu, H Wang - Nano letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
The interfacial adsorption, desorption, and exchange behaviors of thiolated ligands on
nanotextured Au nanoparticle surfaces exhibit phenomenal site-to-site variations essentially …

Detection, counting, and imaging of single nanoparticles

W Wang, N Tao - Analytical chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Consequently, many excellent reviews have been published, covering different aspects of
nanomaterials for chemical analysis. 1− 6 The present Review focuses on applications of …

Emerging tools for studying single entity electrochemistry

Y Wang, X Shan, N Tao - Faraday discussions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Electrochemistry studies charge transfer and related processes at various microscopic
structures (atomic steps, islands, pits and kinks on electrodes), and mesoscopic materials …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison reduction of 4-nitrophenol by gold nanospheres and gold nanostars

T Ma, W Yang, S Liu, H Zhang, F Liang - Catalysts, 2017 - mdpi.com
In order to investigate structure-property relationships, the catalytic properties of gold
nanoparticles were evaluated in the reduction of 4-nitrophenol by NaBH4. Using catalyst …

Influence of surfactant bilayers on the refractive index sensitivity and catalytic properties of anisotropic gold nanoparticles

E Martinsson, MM Shahjamali, N Large, N Zaraee… - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Shape‐controlled synthesis of gold nanoparticles generally involves the use of surfactants,
typically cetyltrimethylammonium (CTAX, X= Cl−, Br−), to regulate the nucleation growth …