Rice University scientists have developed a novel technique to view a field
of plasmonic nanoparticles simultaneously to learn how their differences change their reactivity.
Optical manipulation
of plasmonic nanoparticles, bubble formation and patterning of SERS aggregates.
Abstract: Rice University scientists have developed a novel technique to view a field
of plasmonic nanoparticles simultaneously to learn how their differences change their reactivity.
This discovery, enabling reshaping control
of plasmonic nanoparticles of multiple - length allows for continuous multi-level recording and reading with a capacity over 10 terabytes with no appreciable change of the baseline over 600 years, which opens new opportunities for long data memory that affects the past and future.
Not exact matches
Beyond the activity
of the drugs, the
plasmonic effects
of the gold
nanoparticles could heat the
nanoparticles when they are subjected to light, attacking the cancer cells through a second route.
The authors determined that the
plasmonic -
nanoparticle - coated foils created by their method perform as well or better than existing SSAs and maintain high efficiency throughout the day, regardless
of the angle
of the sun, due to the wide - angle design.
«Our work is significant also because it anticipates the realization
of electrically driven laser devices by utilizing carbon dot * - supported silver
nanoparticles (CD - Ag NPs) as
plasmonic materials.»
[«From tunable core - shell
nanoparticles to
plasmonic drawbridges: Active control
of nanoparticle optical properties «-RSB-
The situation further deteriorates for trapped metal
nanoparticles when the incident light overlaps with a
plasmonic resonance, whereby electrons move in response to light collectively, causing enhancements to local fields by several orders
of magnitude.
Eight - armed
nanoparticles of gold coated with a gold - palladium alloy proved to be both efficient
plasmonic sensors and efficient catalysts, even though gold alone is not normally a good catalyst and palladium is a poor
plasmonic material.
He also works on the design
of biomedical applications based on the
plasmonic properties
of well - defined metal
nanoparticles and nanostructures.
The technology, described in a paper in the ACS journal Nano Letters, relies on a novel
plasmonic photoelectrode architecture
of light - activated gold
nanoparticles that harvest sunlight to drive photocatalytic reactions by efficient, non-radiative plasmon... Read more →