Gold nanorods: the most versatile plasmonic nanoparticles

J Zheng, X Cheng, H Zhang, X Bai, R Ai… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
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 …

Photothermal therapy and photoacoustic imaging via nanotheranostics in fighting cancer

Y Liu, P Bhattarai, Z Dai, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The nonradiative conversion of light energy into heat (photothermal therapy, PTT) or sound
energy (photoacoustic imaging, PAI) has been intensively investigated for the treatment and …

Enantiomer-dependent immunological response to chiral nanoparticles

L Xu, X Wang, W Wang, M Sun, WJ Choi, JY Kim… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Chirality is a unifying structural metric of biological and abiological forms of matter. Over the
past decade, considerable clarity has been achieved in understanding the chemistry and …

Single-Atom Catalysis for Efficient Sonodynamic Therapy of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus-Infected Osteomyelitis

Y Yu, L Tan, Z Li, X Liu, Y Zheng, X Feng, Y Liang… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Osteomyelitis, as a severe bone disease caused by bacterial infection, can result in lifelong
disability or fatal sepsis. Considering that the infection is stubborn and deep-sited in bone …

Plasmon-enhanced light–matter interactions and applications

H Yu, Y Peng, Y Yang, ZY Li - npj Computational Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Surface plasmons are coherent and collective electron oscillations confined at the dielectric–
metal interface. Benefitting from the inherent subwavelength nature of spatial profile, surface …

Present and future of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

J Langer, D Jimenez de Aberasturi, J Aizpurua… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The discovery of the enhancement of Raman scattering by molecules adsorbed on
nanostructured metal surfaces is a landmark in the history of spectroscopic and analytical …

Nanoparticles engineering by pulsed laser ablation in liquids: Concepts and applications

E Fazio, B Gökce, A De Giacomo, M Meneghetti… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Laser synthesis emerges as a suitable technique to produce ligand-free nanoparticles,
alloys and functionalized nanomaterials for catalysis, imaging, biomedicine, energy and …

Collective plasmon coupling in gold nanoparticle clusters for highly efficient photothermal therapy

J Chen, M Gong, Y Fan, J Feng, L Han, HL Xin… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Plasmonic nanomaterials with strong absorption at near-infrared frequencies are promising
photothermal therapy agents (PTAs). The pursuit of high photothermal conversion efficiency …

Miniature gold nanorods for photoacoustic molecular imaging in the second near-infrared optical window

YS Chen, Y Zhao, SJ Yoon, SS Gambhir… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In photoacoustic imaging, the second near-infrared (NIR-II) window is where tissue
generates the least background signal. However, the large size of the few available contrast …

Biomimetic mineralization based on self-assembling peptides

Q Li, Y Wang, G Zhang, R Su, W Qi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomimetic science has attracted great interest in the fields of chemistry, biology, materials
science, and energy. Biomimetic mineralization is the process of synthesizing inorganic …