Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are highly compelling nanomaterials for biomedical studies due
to their unique optical properties. By leveraging the versatile optical properties of different …

Due to the unique nature of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), LSPR has
attracted extensive attention in the field of biochemical sensing. However, compared with …

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 …

Due to their intriguing electronic properties and structural composition, transition metal
oxides (TMOs) such as AO x, A x O x, and A x B 3-x O x; A, B= Ti, V, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn …

Templating is one of the most important techniques for the controlled synthesis of
nanostructured materials. This powerful tool uses a pre-existing guide with desired …

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

Metamaterial-based perfect absorbers provide efficient ways for selective absorption of light
with both linear or circular polarizations. Perfect absorption for an arbitrary polarization …

Considered one of the major fields of photonics of the beginning 21 st century, plasmonics
offers the potential to confine and guide light below the diffraction limit and promises a new …

Plasmonic structures can be constructed from precise numbers of well-defined metal
nanoparticles that are held together with molecular linkers, templates or spacers. Such …