The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their
enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of …

Anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have attracted the interest of scientists for over a
century, but research in this field has considerably accelerated since 2000 with the synthesis …

Plasmonic metal/semiconductor heterostructures show promise for visible-light-driven
photocatalysis. Gold nanorods (AuNRs) semi-coated with TiO2 are expected to be ideally …

Within the field of nanotechnology, nanoparticles are one of the most prominent and
promising candidates for technological applications. Self-assembly of nanoparticles has …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

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 …

Due to strong electric fields at the surface, the absorption and scattering of electromagnetic
radiation by noble metal nanoparticles are strongly enhanced. These unique properties …

Just as nanoparticles display properties that differ from those of bulk samples of the same
material, ensembles of nanoparticles can have collective properties that are different to …

Anisotropic nanoparticles are ideal building blocks for a variety of functional materials due to
their unique and anisotropic optical, electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties …

Metal nanoparticles can be used as building blocks for the formation of nanostructured
materials. For the design of materials with specific (optical) properties, several approaches …