Chitin, a fascinating biopolymer found in living organisms, fulfills current demands of
availability, sustainability, biocompatibility, biodegradability, functionality, and renewability …

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 …

Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale semiconductor crystals with surface ligands
that enable their dispersion in solvents. Quantum confinement effects facilitate wave function …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) provides significantly enhanced Raman
scattering signals from molecules adsorbed on plasmonic nanostructures, as well as the …

Nanofabrication has been utilized to manufacture one-, two-, and three-dimensional
functional nanostructures for applications such as electronics, sensors, and photonic …

Noble metal nanoparticles have been extensively studied to understand and apply their
plasmonic responses, upon coupling with electromagnetic radiation, to research areas such …

Molecular plasmonics, the area which deals with the interactions between surface plasmons
and molecules, has received enormous interest in fundamental research and found …

Dynamic control of circular polarization in chiral metasurfaces is being used in many
photonic applications. However, simple fabrication routes to create chiral materials with …

Chirality describes the geometric property of an object that is not superimposable on its
mirror image and has been a pivotal concept in chemistry and biology since the 19th …