Nanoparticle assembly is a complex and versatile method of generating new materials,
capable of using thousands of different combinations of particle size, shape, composition …

Rapid progress in photonics and its applications underpins the development of highly
efficient optical devices for communications, ultrafast computations, compact biosensing …

Assemblies of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into various functional superstructures, such as
ordered or nonordered, microscopic or macroscopic, and templated or self‐supported, have …

The advent of nanophotonics enables the regulation of thermal emission in the momentum
domain as well as in the frequency domain. However, earlier attempts to steer thermal …

The conception, synthesis, and invention of a nanostructure, now known as the spherical
nucleic acid, or SNA, in 1996 marked the advent of a new field of chemistry. Over the past …

The optical properties of 3D metacrystals made of gold nanoparticles in protein nanocages
are studied. These metacrystals have sizes of tens of micrometers and are of high structural …

Nanomaterials capable of confining light are desirable for enhancing spectroscopies such
as Raman scattering, infrared absorption, and nonlinear optical processes. Plasmonic …

Generating space-filling arrangements of most discrete polyhedra nanostructures of the
same shape is not possible. However, if the appropriate individual building blocks are …

Self-assembled nanoparticle superlattices (NPSLs) are an emergent class of self-architected
nanocomposite materials that possess promising properties arising from precise …

This review describes recent studies on coupled plasmonic systems for controlling plasmon
dynamics and molecular detection using spectral modulations. The plasmon dephasing time …