The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

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 …

Hypoxia, as a characteristic feature of solid tumors, has a close relationship with tumor
resistance to photodynamic therapy (PDT) and chemotherapy. Perfluorocarbon (PFC) is …

Surfactant-assisted seeded growth of metal nanoparticles (NPs) can be engineered to
produce anisotropic gold nanocrystals with high chiroptical activity through the templating …

This Review offers a comprehensive review of the colloidal synthesis, mechanistic
understanding, physicochemical properties, and applications of one-dimensional (1D) metal …

This chapter highlights the synthetic aspects that generally remain in the shadows in order to
provide the scientific community with a user-friendly guide for the production of gold …

We show that thermal treatment of small Au seeds results in extensive twinning and a
subsequent drastic improvement in the yield (> 85%) of formation of pentatwinned …

Plasmonic metal/semiconductor heterostructures show promise for visible-light-driven
photocatalysis. Gold nanorods (AuNRs) semi-coated with TiO2 are expected to be ideally …

Anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have attracted the interest of scientists for over a
century, but research in this field has considerably accelerated since 2000 with the synthesis …

We report a dramatically improved synthesis of colloidal gold nanorods (NRs) using a binary
surfactant mixture composed of hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and sodium …