Metal-halide perovskites have rapidly emerged as one of the most promising materials of the
21st century, with many exciting properties and great potential for a broad range of …

Plasmonic gold nanoparticles have been used increasingly in solid-state systems because
of their applicability in fabricating novel sensors, heterogeneous catalysts, metamaterials …

Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

Future precision medicine will be undoubtedly sustained by the detection of validated
biomarkers that enable a precise classification of patients based on their predicted disease …

These days, cancer is thought to be more than just one illness, with several complex
subtypes that require different screening approaches. These subtypes can be distinguished …

Surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy strongly increases the cross section of Raman
scattering and infrared absorption, overcoming the limited sensitivity and resolution of these …

The assembly of plasmonic nanoparticles into ordered 2D-and 3D-superlattices could pave
the way towards new tailored materials for plasmonic sensing, photocatalysis and …

The self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles has made it possible to bridge the nanoscopic
and macroscopic worlds and to make complex nanostructures. The nanoparticle-mediated …

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a powerful cross-disciplinary analytical
technique allowing ultrasensitive detection of various analytes with a fingerprint-like …