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 …

Gold nanoparticles are popularly used in biological and chemical sensors and their
applications owing to their fascinating chemical, optical, and catalytic properties. Particularly …

Colorimetric detection of target analytes with high specificity and sensitivity is of fundamental
importance to clinical and personalized point-of-care diagnostics. Because of their …

The rapid, sensitive and reliable food safety control is urgently needed due to the harmful
effects of the food contaminants on human health. Colorimetric approach has exhibited …

While great success has been achieved in fine-tuning the aspect ratios and thereby the
plasmon resonances of cylindrical Au nanorods, facet control with atomic level precision on …

Noble metal nanoparticles have been of tremendous interest due to their intriguing size-and
shape-dependent plasmonic and catalytic properties. Combining tunable plasmon …

Fabrication and transmission of plasmonic chirality is a rapidly developing area of research.
While nanoscale chirality is reasonably well explored, research on intrinsically chiral …

Gold nanorod (AuNR) colorimetric sensors have emerged as powerful tools in various
chemosensing and biosensing applications due to their localized surface plasmon …

Visualization of intracellular pH (i-pH) using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)
plays an important role toward understanding of cellular processes including their …

The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been an integral part of in vitro
diagnostic tests due to its high specificity, standard configuration, and convenient readout …