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

This Review presents polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, nucleic acids, peptides, and
proteins as functional stimuli‐responsive polymer scaffolds that yield hydrogels with …

Optical microscopy has for centuries been a key tool to study living cells with minimum
invasiveness. The advent of single molecule techniques over the past two decades has …

Recent years have seen a growing interest in using metal nanostructures to control
temperature on the nanoscale. Under illumination at its plasmonic resonance, a metal …

The plasmon resonances of metallic nanoparticles have received considerable attention for
their applications in nanophotonics, biology, sensing, spectroscopy and solar energy …

The past several decades have seen tremendous advances in metal nanoparticle research.
This field involves workers from many different areas, including materials scientists …

We demonstrate that lossy plasmonic resonances of nanoparticles are broad enough to
cover the majority of the solar spectrum and highly efficient for absorbing sunlight. In …

Noble metal nanoparticles are capable of confining resonant photons in such a manner as
to induce coherent surface plasmon oscillation of their conduction band electrons, a …

This feature article highlights work from the authors' laboratories on the synthesis, assembly,
reactivity, and optical applications of metallic nanoparticles of nonspherical shape …

Plasmonic metal nanoparticles have great potential for chemical and biological sensor
applications, due to their sensitive spectral response to the local environment of the …