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 …

Anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have attracted the interest of scientists for over a
century, but research in this field has considerably accelerated since 2000 with the synthesis …

The growing amount of data that is generated every year creates an urgent need for new
and improved data storage methods. Nanomaterials, which have unique mechanical …

Gold nanorods have received much attention due to their unique optical and electronic
properties which are dependent on their shape, size, and aspect ratio. This article covers in …

Existing methods for the optical detection of single molecules require the molecules to
absorb light to produce fluorescence or direct absorption signals,,. This limits the range of …

Noble metal nanoparticles are capable of confining resonant photons in such a manner as
to induce coherent surface plasmon oscillation of their conduction band electrons, a …

Multiplexed optical recording provides an unparalleled approach to increasing the
information density beyond 1012 bits per cm3 (1 Tbit cm-3) by storing multiple, individually …

Light-exposure-mediated higher temperatures that markedly accelerate the degradation of
indocyanine green (ICG) in aqueous solutions by thermal decomposition have been a …

Since the first report on the far-field optical detection of single metal nanoparticles in the late
1990s, the field has rapidly developed and new methods and concepts have been …

This paper reports a versatile seed-mediated growth method for selectively synthesizing
single-crystalline rhombic dodecahedral, octahedral, and cubic gold nanocrystals. In the …