The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

Rapid and high precision detection of toxic metal ions is one of the chief requirements today
to combat environment pollution. Gold nanoparticles play a key role in this by assisting the …

1. INTRODUCTION Detection of chemical and biological agents plays a fundamental role in
biomedical, forensic and environmental sciences 1− 4 as well as in anti bioterrorism …

The past few decades have witnessed significant advances in the development of
functionalized gold nanoparticles for applications in various fields such as chemistry …

Self-assembly of plasmonic nanoparticles offers a labour-and cost-efficient strategy for the
expansion of the library of plasmonic nanostructures with highly tunable, coupled optical …

With their unique sequence‐specific self‐assembly and their substrate recognition
properties, peptides play critical roles in controlling the biomineralization of inorganic …

Colloidal gold solutions have been used for centuries in a wide variety of applications
including staining glass and in the colouring of ceramics. More recently, gold nanoparticles …

Nanoparticle based platforms for identification of chemical and biological agents offer
substantial benefits to biomedical and environmental science. These platforms benefit from …

The development of rapid, specific, cost‐effective, and robust tools in monitoring Hg2+ levels
in both environmental and biological samples is of utmost importance due to the severe …

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), the huge potential functional nanoparticles in scientific
research, have attained tremendous interest for their unique physical–optical property since …