Nanoscience and nanotechnology are recent revolutionary developments of science and
engineering that are evolving at a very fast pace. They are driven by the desire to fabricate …

Particles in the nanometer size range are attracting increasing attention with the growth of
interest in nanotechnological disciplines. Nanoparticles display fascinating electronic and …

The femtosecond laser ablation of a gold target in aqueous solutions has been used to
produce colloidal Au nanoparticles with controlled surface chemistry. A detailed chemical …

This paper reviews recent advances in chemical synthesis, self‐assembly, and potential
applications of monodisperse binary FePt nanoparticles. After a brief introduction to …

Fluorescence is widely used in optical devices, microscopy imaging, biology, medical
research and diagnosis. Improving fluorescence sensitivity, all the way to the limit of single …

Laser mediated remote release of encapsulated fluorescently labeled polymers from
nanoengineered polyelectrolyte multilayer capsules containing gold sulfide core/gold shell …

The unique optical properties of noble metal nanoparticles have been used to design a label-
free biosensor in a chip format. In this paper, we demonstrate that the size of gold …

Gold nanoparticles have been conformally coated with amorphous silica (using a sol− gel
method) and then an organic polymer (via surface-grafted, atom transfer radical …

We demonstrate template-guided self-assembly of gold nanoparticles into ordered arrays of
uniform clusters suitable for high-performance SERS on both flat (silicon or glass) chips and …

Polyelectrolyte (PE)/gold nanoparticle hybrid films that can be utilized as efficient
electrochemical sensors were prepared by infiltrating 4-(dimethylamino) pyridine-stabilized …