Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

This Review offers a comprehensive review of the colloidal synthesis, mechanistic
understanding, physicochemical properties, and applications of one-dimensional (1D) metal …

Anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have attracted the interest of scientists for over a
century, but research in this field has considerably accelerated since 2000 with the synthesis …

Gold nanoparticles have been used in biomedical applications since their first colloidal
syntheses more than three centuries ago. However, over the past two decades, their …

Currently a popular area in nanomedicine is the implementation of plasmonic gold
nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and photothermal therapy, attributed to the intriguing …

Noble metal nanoparticles are capable of confining resonant photons in such a manner as
to induce coherent surface plasmon oscillation of their conduction band electrons, a …

Nanoparticles of noble metals belong to the most extensively studied colloidal systems in
the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Due to continuing progress in the synthesis of …

A compelling vision in nanomedicine is the use of self directed nanoparticles that can
accumulate in areas of disease to perform designed functions, such as molecular delivery or …

Metal nanoshells are core/shell nanoparticles that can be designed to either strongly absorb
or scatter within the near-infrared (NIR) wavelength region (∼ 650− 950 nm). Nanoshells …

Gold nanorods (NRs) have plasmon‐resonant absorption and scattering in the near‐infrared
(NIR) region, making them attractive probes for in vitro and in vivo imaging. In the cellular …