Surfactant layers on gold nanorods

J Mosquera, D Wang, S Bals… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Gold nanorods (Au NRs) are an exceptionally promising tool in nanotechnology
due to three key factors:(i) their strong interaction with electromagnetic radiation, stemming …

Two-photon absorption and photoluminescence of colloidal gold nanoparticles and nanoclusters

J Olesiak-Banska, M Waszkielewicz… - Chemical society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
This review provides a comprehensive description of nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of
gold nanoparticles, which can be used in biological applications. The main focus is placed …

Direct visualization of ligands on gold nanoparticles in a liquid environment

A Pedrazo-Tardajos, N Claes, D Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The interactions between gold nanoparticles, their surface ligands and the solvent critically
influence the properties of these nanoparticles. Although spectroscopic and scattering …

Unraveling the origin of chirality from plasmonic nanoparticle-protein complexes

Q Zhang, T Hernandez, KW Smith, SA Hosseini Jebeli… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Plasmon-coupled circular dichroism has emerged as a promising approach for ultrasensitive
detection of biomolecular conformations through coupling between molecular chirality and …

Corner-, edge-, and facet-controlled growth of nanocrystals

Y Li, H Lin, W Zhou, L Sun, D Samanta, CA Mirkin - Science Advances, 2021 - science.org
The ability to precisely control nanocrystal (NC) shape and composition is useful in many
fields, including catalysis and plasmonics. Seed-mediated strategies have proven effective …

Solution NMR analysis of ligand environment in quaternary ammonium-terminated self-assembled monolayers on gold nanoparticles: the effect of surface curvature …

M Wu, AM Vartanian, G Chong… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report a solution NMR-based analysis of (16-mercaptohexadecyl) trimethylammonium
bromide (MTAB) self-assembled monolayers on colloidal gold nanospheres (AuNSs) with …

Plasmonic nanoparticles with supramolecular recognition

J Mosquera, Y Zhao, HJ Jang, N Xie… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Even after more than two decades of intense studies, the research on self‐assembly
processes involving supramolecular interactions between nanoparticles (NPs) is …

Chirality amplification by desymmetrization of chiral ligand-capped nanoparticles to nanorods quantified in soft condensed matter

A Nemati, S Shadpour, L Querciagrossa, L Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Induction, transmission, and manipulation of chirality in molecular systems are well known,
widely applied concepts. However, our understanding of how chirality of nanoscale entities …

Quantitative imaging of organic ligand density on anisotropic inorganic nanocrystals

BE Janicek, JG Hinman, JJ Hinman, SH Bae, M Wu… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A longstanding challenge in nanoparticle characterization is to understand anisotropic
distributions of organic ligands at the surface of inorganic nanoparticles. Here, we show that …

Functional Noncentrosymmetric Nanoparticle–Nanofiber Hybrids via Selective Fragmentation

HK MacKenzie, Y Zhang, W Zheng… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Noncentrosymmetric nanostructures are an attractive synthetic target as they can exhibit
complex interparticle interactions useful for numerous applications. However, generating …