In this review article, we provide an overview of recent research activities in the study of
plasmonic optical properties of metal nanostructures with emphasis on understanding the …

Nanocrystal engineered superlattices are a new type of material, differing from either a
single particle or the corresponding bulk material, explains ZL Wang. He briefly outlines …

The surface plasmon response of metal nanoparticles is studied for different shapes and
physical environments. For polyhedral nanoparticles, the surface plasmon resonances are …

The physical and chemical properties of nanophase materials rely on their crystal and
surface structures. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a powerful and unique …

Data on the experimental structure of small particles is reviewed, the emphasis being an
attempt to correlate experimental information with theoretical models. First, a general …

This contribution is a preprint of one chapter of Professor Wang's edited new book
“Characterization of Nanophase Materials”(ISBN 3–527–29837–1), published by WILEY …

Experimental results from thermally annealed particles of silver and gold in the size range
10–50 nm show the presence of re-entrant surfaces on the decahedral multiply twinned …

The energetics of nickel clusters over a broad size range are explored within the context of
the many‐body potentials obtained via the embedded atom method. Unconstrained local …

An efficient lattice based search and optimization procedure has been developed and used
with various assumed pair potentials to find minimal energy structures on an icosahedrally …

Metallic nanoparticles exhibit exceptional optoelectronic properties with applications in
plasmonics, biosensing and nanomedicine,,,,. Recently, new synthesis techniques have …