Nanocrystals offer a unique platform for tailoring the physicochemical properties of solid
materials to enhance their performances in various applications. While most work on …

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) provides significantly enhanced Raman
scattering signals from molecules adsorbed on plasmonic nanostructures, as well as the …

Janus nanoparticles (JNPs) refer to the integration of two or more chemically discrepant
composites into one structure system. Studies into JNPs have been of significant interest …

Synthetic micro/nanomotors have great potential in deep tissue imaging and in vivo drug
delivery because of their active motion ability. However, applying nanomotors with a size …

Bimetallic Janus nanocrystals have received considerable interest in recent years owing to
their unique properties and niche applications. The side‐by‐side distribution of two distinct …

Symmetric shapes and patterns are fascinating and preferred by humans as symmetric
stimuli of any kind are more easily processed by the visual systems than their asymmetric …

Templating is one of the most important techniques for the controlled synthesis of
nanostructured materials. This powerful tool uses a pre-existing guide with desired …

Recent advances in the precise control over the shape and size of metal nanoparticles have
enabled systematic engineering of their localized-surface-plasmon-resonance (LSPR) …

The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

Multifunctional dual-compartment Janus mesoporous silica nanocomposites of UCNP@
SiO2@ mSiO2&PMO (UCNP= upconversion nanoparticle, PMO= periodic mesoporous …