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 …

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

From small molecules to entire organisms, evolution has refined biological structures at the
nanoscale, microscale and macroscale to be chiral—that is, mirror dissymmetric. Chirality …

A robust and reproducible methodology to prepare stable inorganic nanoparticles with chiral
morphology may hold the key to the practical utilization of these materials. An optimized …

Seed-mediated synthesis strategies, in which small gold nanoparticle precursors are added
to a growth solution to initiate heterogeneous nucleation, are among the most prevalent …

Laser synthesis emerges as a suitable technique to produce ligand-free nanoparticles,
alloys and functionalized nanomaterials for catalysis, imaging, biomedicine, energy and …

Surfactant-assisted seeded growth of metal nanoparticles (NPs) can be engineered to
produce anisotropic gold nanocrystals with high chiroptical activity through the templating …

The overuse of antibiotics has led to an increase in bacterial resistance and, in turn, to a
decreasing efficiency of the rare available antibiotics. Alternatively, gold nanoparticles are …

The interactions between gold nanoparticles, their surface ligands and the solvent critically
influence the properties of these nanoparticles. Although spectroscopic and scattering …

Multicompartment nanoparticles have raised great interest for different biomedical
applications, thanks to the combined properties of different materials within a single entity …