Gold nanoparticles have excellent optical and plasmon properties and have enormous
research potential when they combine with different ligands. Functionalized gold …

Degenerately doped semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) are of recent interest to the NC
community due to their tunable localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) in the near …

The lack of a detailed mechanistic understanding for plasmon-mediated charge transfer at
metal-semiconductor interfaces severely limits the design of efficient photovoltaic and …

Plasmon-induced hot-electron transfer from metal nanostructures is a potential new
paradigm for solar energy conversion; however, the reported efficiencies of devices based …

The past several decades have seen tremendous advances in metal nanoparticle research.
This field involves workers from many different areas, including materials scientists …

The field of nanocatalysis (in which nanoparticles are used to catalyze reactions) has
undergone an exponential growth during the past decade. Two types of studies have been …

The size and temperature dependence of the plasmon absorption is studied for 9, 15, 22, 48,
and 99 nm gold nanoparticles in aqueous solution. The plasmon bandwidth is found to …

The field of nanoparticle research has drawn much attention in the past decade as a result of
the search for new materials. Size confinement results in new electronic and optical …

Nanoscience and nanotechnology are recent revolutionary developments of science and
engineering that are evolving at a very fast pace. They are driven by the desire to fabricate …

The growth of gold nanoparticles by reduction by citrate and ascorbic acid has been
examined in detail to explore the parameter space of reaction conditions. It is found that gold …