Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Converted into mechanical nanoresonators after optical pulsed excitation and electron
decay into coherent acoustic phonons, plasmonic nanoantennas produce a periodic …

Localized surface plasmons are lossy and generate heat. However, accurate measurement
of the temperature of metallic nanoparticles under illumination remains an open challenge …

Obtaining arrays of single nanoparticles with three-dimensional complex shapes is still an
open challenge. Current nanolithography methods do not allow for the preparation of …

Silicon nanoparticles (Si NPs) supporting Mie resonances exhibit vivid structural colors on
the subwavelength scale. For future wearable devices, next generation Si-based optical …

Metallic nanoparticles possess strong photothermal responses, especially when illuminated
as ensembles due to collective effects. However, accurately quantifying the temperature …

Peptide amphiphiles (PAs) are known for their remarkable ability to undergo molecular self-
assembly, a process that is highly responsive to the local microenvironment. Herein, we …

Plasmonic optical tweezers exhibit excellent potential in the manipulation of nanoparticles,
which advances the fields of nano medicine, chemical and biological sensing, and robotics …

When confronted with a chemical physics problem, the standard approach has long been to
first simplify and limit the problem to a hypothetical molecule or a nanoscale unit in a …

Cell assembly has important applications in biomedical research, which can be achieved
with laser-heating induced thermal convective flow. In this paper, an opto-thermal approach …