Recent advances of plasmonic nanoparticles include fascinating developments in the fields
of energy, catalyst chemistry, optics, biotechnology, and medicine. The plasmonic …

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

Conspectus Metal nanoparticles have been utilized for a vast amount of plasmon enhanced
spectroscopies and energy conversion devices. Their unique optical properties allow them …

The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

Midinfrared photothermal (MIP) microscopy, also called optical photothermal infrared (O-
PTIR) microscopy, is an emerging tool for bond-selective chemical imaging of living …

Mid-infrared (IR) spectroscopic imaging using inherent vibrational contrast has been broadly
used as a powerful analytical tool for sample identification and characterization. However …

Gold nanoparticles have been used in biomedical applications since their first colloidal
syntheses more than three centuries ago. However, over the past two decades, their …

Nanomedicine is an emerging field that exploits nanotechnology for the development of
novel therapeutic and diagnostic modalities. Researches are been focussed in nanoimaging …

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 …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are important components for biomedical applications. AuNPs
have been widely employed for diagnostics, and have seen increasing use in the area of …