The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) property of metallic nanoparticles is
widely exploited for chemical and biological sensing. Selective biosensing of molecules …

The advance of reliable and eco‐friendly strategies for the development of nanoparticles is a
fundamental key to the discipline of nanotechnology. Nanoparticles have been continuously …

Nanoparticles are generally defined as any particulate material for which at least one
dimension lies in the range of 1− 100 nm. 1− 3 They can exist in various shapes, such as …

Gold nanoparticles are especially suited to thermal destruction of cancer due to their ease of
surface functionalization and photothermal heating ability. This chapter reviews the progress …

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 …

In recent years, an increasing number of nanomaterials have been explored for their
applications in biomedical diagnostics, making their applications in healthcare biosensing a …

Nanoparticles are emerging as a useful tool for a wide variety of biomedical, consumer and
instrumental applications that include drug delivery systems, biosensors and environmental …

One of the major components in the development of nanomedicines is the choice of the right
biomaterial, which notably determines the subsequent biological responses. The popularity …

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 …

2. INTRODUCTION The investigation of many fundamental processes in life sciences
requires straightforward tools for fast, sensitive, reliable, and reproducible detection of …