Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a biomedical imaging modality that provides functional
information regarding the cellular and molecular signatures of tissue by using endogenous …

The excitation of surface plasmons (SPs) in metallic nanoparticles (NPs) induces optical
properties hardly achievable in other optical materials, yielding a wide range of applications …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Unique electronic and chemical properties of metal nanoparticles have drawn the attention
of chemists, physicists, biologists, and engineers who wish to use them for the development …

The concept of shape‐controlled synthesis is discussed by investigating the growth
mechanisms for silver nanocubes, nanowires, and nanospheres produced through a …

The replacement reaction between silver nanostructures and an aqueous HAuCl4 solution
has recently been demonstrated as a versatile method for generating metal nanostructures …

Noble metal particles of Au, Pt, and Ir were deposited on nanostructured TiO2 film using an
electrophoretic approach. The nanocomposite films were characterized by UV-absorption …

This paper describes a general approach that generates nanoscale hollow structures of
metals by reacting solutions of appropriate salt solutions with solid templates of a more …