Gold nanorods have been receiving extensive attention owing to their extremely attractive
applications in biomedical technologies, plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies, and optical …

Noble metal nanoparticles (NMNPs), which spring up like mushrooms, are gaining
momentum owing to their unique physicochemical characteristics. Cucurbiturils, a class of …

The creation of matter with varying degrees of complexities and desired functions is one of
the ultimate targets of self-assembly. The ability to regulate the complex interactions …

Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation can strongly enhance the interaction of light
with nanoscale matter by their ability to efficiently link propagating and spatially localized …

The experimentally determined scattering spectra of discrete, crystalline, gold nanorod
dimers arranged side-to-side, end-to-end, at right angles in different orientations and also …

Anisotropic nanoparticles are powerful building blocks for materials engineering. Unusual
properties emerge with added anisotropy often to an extraordinary degree enabling …

Few-layer graphenes (FLG) produced by dispersion and exfoliation of graphite in N-
methylpyrrolidone were successfully functionalized using the 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition of …

This consistent and systematic review of recent advances in optical antenna theory and
practice brings together leading experts in the fields of electrical engineering, nano-optics …

This chapter reviews the concepts, synthetic methods, and theoretical predictions underlying
the chirality of metal colloids with a particular emphasis on the size range of 10–100 …

Multiple properties of plasmonic assemblies are determined by their geometrical
organization. While high degree of complexity was achieved for plasmonic superstructures …