All forms of energy follow the law of conservation of energy, by which they can be neither
created nor destroyed. Light-to-heat conversion as a traditional yet constantly evolving …

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 …

Core–shell nanoparticles are at the leading edge of the hot research topics and offer a wide
range of applications in optics, biomedicine, environmental science, materials, catalysis …

Gold nanorods have been receiving extensive attention owing to their extremely attractive
applications in biomedical technologies, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, and optical …

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

The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) property of metallic nanoparticles is
widely exploited for chemical and biological sensing. Selective biosensing of molecules …

This Review offers a comprehensive review of the colloidal synthesis, mechanistic
understanding, physicochemical properties, and applications of one-dimensional (1D) metal …

Photothermal conversion, heat localization and water supply are the keys to achieving
efficient solar‐driven interfacial evaporation. However, effective coupling between the three …

Au nanoparticles (AuNPs) as signal reporters have been utilized in colorimetric in vitro
diagnostics (IVDs) for decades. Nevertheless, it remains a grand challenge to substantially …

Plasmonic gap nanostructures (PGNs) have been extensively investigated mainly because
of their strongly enhanced optical responses, which stem from the high intensity of the …