From small molecules to entire organisms, evolution has refined biological structures at the
nanoscale, microscale and macroscale to be chiral—that is, mirror dissymmetric. Chirality …

Over the past decade, defect-promoted electrochemical activity and stability have become
essential concepts to a rational catalyst design. The interest in defect engineering has been …

Here we report a synthetic pathway toward Au truncated octahedral dual-rim nanoframes
wherein two functional facets are formed including (1) eight hot nanogaps formed by …

Coordination assembly offers a versatile means to developing advanced materials for
various applications. However, current strategies for assembling metal‐organic networks …

This work reports a scaffold-templated, bottom-up synthesis of 3D anisotropic nanofeatures
on periodic arrays of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Our method relies on substrate-bound …

The development of a theranostic platform that integrates both diagnostic and therapeutic
capabilities is in great need for precise and personalized medicine. Here, we present a …

Herein, by introducing gold nanostars (AuNSs) as fuel core, a near-infrared-driven
nanorocket (NIDNR) with pretty fast walking was exploited for ultrasensitive miRNA …

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging has revolutionized modern materials
science, nanotechnology, and structural biology. Its ability to provide information about …

Concentrated optical fields in plasmonic metal nanostructures generate high densities of
excited charge carriers, which can be extracted or emitted into surrounding media for a …

Gold nanostars (AuNS) are anisotropic metal nanoparticles that display morphology-
dependent optical properties. These include strong extinction coefficients in the near …