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 …

One may discover a stone tool by chance but it takes more than luck to make a car or cell
phone. With the advance of nanoscience, the synthesis of increasingly sophisticated …

Strong chiroptical effects recently reported result from the interaction of light with chiral
plasmonic nanostructures. Such nanostructures can be used to enhance the chiroptical …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) combines molecular fingerprint specificity
with potential single-molecule sensitivity. Therefore, the SERS technique is an attractive tool …

Herein, we report the successful application of hybrid Au–Ag nanoparticles (NPs) and
nanochains (NCs) in the harvesting of visible light energy for selective hydrogenation …

Surface encoding of colloidal nanoparticles with DNA is fundamental for fields where
recognition interaction is required, particularly controllable material self-assembly. However …

In recent years, Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) has experienced a
tremendous increase of attention in the scientific community, expanding to a continuously …

We demonstrate that the silica shell on nanoparticles formed by a typical Stöber method is
inhomogeneous in nature. The outer layer of the shell is chemically more robust than the …

Nanoparticle assembly offers a versatile tool for constructing new structural materials with
emergent or collective properties beyond individual nanoparticles. The achievement of …

We report a novel approach for fabricating gold nanostar-functionalized substrates for highly
sensitive surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)-based chemical sensing. Gold …