All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

Silver and gold nanoparticles have found extensive biomedical applications due to their
strong localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) and intriguing plasmonic properties …

Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) promise an accelerated application of the scientific method.
Through the automation of experimental workflows, along with autonomous experimental …

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 …

We present an autonomous chemical synthesis robot for the exploration, discovery, and
optimization of nanostructures driven by real-time spectroscopic feedback, theory, and …

Colorimetric sensing offers instant reporting via visible signals. Versus labor-intensive and
instrument-dependent detection methods, colorimetric sensors present advantages …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) possess unique size-dependent optical, electronic, and
chemical properties, making them auspicious and tunable nanoscale building blocks for …

Wearable sweat sensors have the potential to provide clinically meaningful information
associated with the health and disease states of individuals. Current sensors mainly rely on …

The pseudo-two-dimensional (2D) morphology of plate-like metal nanoparticles makes them
one of the most anisotropic, mechanistically understood, and tunable structures available …