Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

Flexible sensors can be envisioned as promising components for smart sensing
applications, including consumer electronics, robotics, prosthetics, health care, safety …

Although gold is the subject of one of the most ancient themes of investigation in science, its
renaissance now leads to an exponentially increasing number of publications, especially in …

We have used the pH-induced self-assembly of a peptide-amphiphile to make a
nanostructured fibrous scaffold reminiscent of extracellular matrix. The design of this peptide …

Amphiphilic molecules, of which soap is a typical example, possess antagonistic hydrophilic
and hydrophobic moieties in the same molecule. Carbohydrate amphiphiles, commonly …

Gold nanorods were prepared via a seed-mediated sequential growth process involving the
use of citrate-stabilised seed crystals and their subsequent growth in a series of reaction …

Self-assembled cylindrical particles of wild type and recombinant tobacco mosaic virus
(TMV) were used as organic templates for the controlled deposition and organization of Pt …

In the miniaturization of manufactured goods, the practical limits of what can be achieved
when engineering from the “top down” are being approached.(1-9) Despite the continuing …

Short, single‐particle‐wide chains and complex networks of interconnected chains are
easily self‐assembled from 13 nm Au nanoparticles by inducing a surface electrostatic …