Gold is a precious metal with a characteristic bright and beautiful hue known as the golden
yellow color.(1) As of 2012, a total of 174,100 tons of Au has been mined in human history …

Flexible photodetectors have attracted a great deal of research interest in recent years due
to their great possibilities for application in a variety of emerging areas such as flexible …

Metal nanoparticles have been the subject of widespread research over the past two
decades. In recent years, noble metals have been the focus of numerous studies involving …

Gold nanostars have attracted widespread interest due to their remarkable properties and
broad applications in plasmonics, spectroscopy, biomedicine, and energy conversion …

Comprehensive knowledge over the shape of nanomaterials is a critical factor in designing
devices with desired functions. Due to this reason, systematic efforts have been made to …

Multipod Au nanoparticles (nanostars) with single crystalline tips were synthesized in
extremely high yield through the reduction of HAuCl 4 in a concentrated solution of poly …

Research on metal nanoparticles has been boosted by a wide variety of applications that
often require a precise definition of the morphological features at the nanometer scale …

Localized surface plasmon resonances in noble metal nanoparticles cause enhanced
optical absorption and scattering that is tunable through the visible and near-infrared …

Gold-based catalysts have attracted intense interest in recent years following the discovery
[1] that small supported Au nanoparticles (NPs) can be effective catalysts for CO oxidation at …

Nanotechnology provides the ability to engineer the properties of materials by controlling
their size and shape. Among the most interesting nanostructures are anisotropic noble metal …