The vivid optical properties of noble metal nanoparticles have been an object of fascination
since ancient times. The ruby red of stained glass windows arises from gold nanoparticles …

Fluorescence is widely used in optical devices, microscopy imaging, biology, medical
research and diagnosis. Improving fluorescence sensitivity, all the way to the limit of single …

Abstract Recently, several groups (Anderson, Halas, Zharov, and their co-workers, 2003; El-
Sayed and co-workers, 2006) demonstrated, through pioneering results, the great potential …

Controlled synthesis of Au nanoparticles with adjustable sizes (10− 50 nm) and narrow size
distributions (< 10% in standard deviation) was realized by reducing hydrochloroauric acid …

Metal and semiconductor nanoparticles attract much attention due to their astonishing
properties and numerous possibilities for applications in sensors. Significant progress has …

The localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) is a collective oscillation of the
nanoparticle conduction electrons. LSPR excitation in silver and gold nanoparticles …

In this paper we describe a new configuration for producing narrow extinction lineshapes for
light scattering from one-dimensional arrays of silver nanoparticles. In this configuration …

Organized assembly remains a major challenge for optimizing and extending the application
of nanoparticles. Here we report a simple method to assemble spherical gold nanoparticles …

The extinction spectra of arrays of nanoparticles provides a potentially powerful platform for
chemical and biological sensing based on variation in plasmon wavelength excitation with …

Au nanoparticles encapsulated within polystyrene-block-poly (acrylic acid)(PS-b-PAA)
micelles assemble into regular, one-dimensional arrays when they are exposed to solvent …