Hybrid nanostructures composed of semiconductor and plasmonic metal components are
receiving extensive attention. They display extraordinary optical characteristics that are …

Organic/inorganic nanohybrids have attracted widespread interests due to their favorable
properties and promising applications in biomedical areas. Great efforts have been made to …

The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the development of
functionalized gold nanoparticles for applications in various fields such as chemistry …

The shape control of gold nanocrystals has attracted extensive research interest because of
their unique shape-dependent properties and widespread applications. Surfactants have …

Anisotropic nanoparticles are powerful building blocks for materials engineering. Unusual
properties emerge with added anisotropy often to an extraordinary degree enabling …

Anisotropic nanoparticles have fascinated scientists and engineering communities for over a
century because of their unique physical and chemical properties. In recent years …

Nanoparticle (NP) assemblies have been studied over the past several decades, and the
field is advancing more quickly and reaching into more diverse fields. Reports issued from …

One of the key frontiers in nanomaterial fabrication is the integration of different materials
within the same structure to increase functionality. In particular, interactions between …

Inorganic photothermal agents (PTAs) have attracted considerable attention in cancer
theranostics due to their unique features such as high photothermal conversion efficacy …

In nanoscale, with size variation, Au shows different optical behaviors. For the small size
clusters (sub-5 nm), it behaves more like semiconductors having sp and d band electronic …