Anisotropic nanoparticles are ideal building blocks for a variety of functional materials due to
their unique and anisotropic optical, electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties …

Crystal phase, an intrinsic characteristic of crystalline materials, is one of the key parameters
to determine their physicochemical properties. Recently, great progress has been made in …

This chapter highlights the synthetic aspects that generally remain in the shadows in order to
provide the scientific community with a user-friendly guide for the production of gold …

Plasmonic nanoparticles made of gold and silver have attracted a great deal of research
attention in various fields, such as biosensors, imaging, therapy, nanophotonics, catalysis …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201505617 nonvolatile solutes normally leaves a ring of solute
deposited on the surface instead of a uniform distribution and it is the well-known coffee-ring …

There is a challenge to obtain an ultrasensitive and rapid approach to detect bacteria and
identify resistance. As a powerful bioanalytical tool, surface-enhanced Raman scattering …

The ability of nanoscopic materials to self-organize into large-scale assembly structures that
exhibit unique collective properties has opened up new and exciting opportunities in the …

A wet-chemical approach is used to fabricate centimeter-scale gold nanoisland films (NIFs)
with tunable morphology of islands and with strong electromagnetic coupling between them …

A two-dimensional (2-D) double-distribution lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is implemented
to study isothermal drying of a colloidal suspension considering local nanoparticle effects …

The integration of nanoparticle superstructures into daily life applications faces major
challenges including the simplification of the self-assembly process, reduced cost, and …