Plasmonic nanostructures possessing unique and versatile optoelectronic properties have
been vastly investigated over the past decade. However, the full potential of plasmonic …

We present a comprehensive overview of chirality and its optical manifestation in plasmonic
nanosystems and nanostructures. We discuss top-down fabricated structures that range from …

The field of chiral inorganic nanostructures is rapidly expanding. It started from the
observation of strong circular dichroism during the synthesis of individual nanoparticles …

Determining the structural chirality of biomolecules is of vital importance in bioscience and
biomedicine. Conventional methods for characterizing molecular chirality, eg, circular …

Chiro-sensitive molecular detection is highly relevant as many biochemical compounds, the
building blocks of life, are chiral. Optical chirality is conventionally detected through circular …

Conspectus Current interest in nanoparticle ensembles is motivated by their collective
synergetic properties that are distinct from or better than those of individual nanoparticles …

DNA serves as a versatile template for few-atom silver clusters and their organized self-
assembly. These clusters possess unique structural and photophysical properties that are …

Plasmon-enhanced circular dichroism has established itself as a promising candidate to
push the limits of molecular handedness detection to the extremes, namely, toward a …

Plasmonic nanoparticles made of gold and silver have attracted a great deal of research
attention in various fields, such as biosensors, imaging, therapy, nanophotonics, catalysis …

Nucleic acids are natural biopolymers of nucleotides that store, encode, transmit and
express genetic information, which play central roles in diverse cellular events and diseases …