Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Pickering emulsions (PEs), emulsions stabilized by solid emulsifiers, are already of great
importance for the food, pharmaceutical and biomedical industry. More recently, PEs are …

Near infrared (NIR) light utilization in a range of current technologies has gained huge
significance due to its abundance in nature and nondestructive properties. NIR active …

Core-shell gold nanorods (AuNRs) with Raman reporter sandwiched was prepared as the
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) tags for detecting biomarkers in human sweat …

Colorimetric sensors with instant visual readout are significant and highly required for
convenient detection of various analytes, especially in the post-COVID-19 era. Noble metal …

Metallic nanostructures have numerous applications as industrial catalysts and sensing
platforms. Supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is a green medium for the scalable …

Photocatalytic reactions using copper-based nanomaterials have emerged as a new
paradigm in green technology. Selective photocatalysis is very important for improving …

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have attracted widespread attention due to their
advantages of intrinsic safety, low cost and eco-friendly nature. However, uncontrollable …

Fabrication of facile, efficient, low cost, reproducible substrates for surface enhanced Raman
scattering (SERS) based on leaf-inspired biomimetic material has been demonstrated. The …

In this work, a water-soluble gold nanoparticle-encapsulated polyaniline nanocomposite
(AuNP-PANI) was prepared in the presence of an ionic surfactant such as …