Why gold nanoparticles are more precious than pretty gold: Noble metal surface plasmon resonance and its enhancement of the radiative and nonradiative properties of nanocrystals of different shapes

2005/12/16 by Susie Eustis, Mostafa A. El‐Sayed · 4 citations
Materials Science · #Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications #Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications #Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications

paper · doi:10.1039/b514191e

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Abstract

This tutorial review presents an introduction to the field of noble metal nanoparticles and their current applications. The origin of the surface plasmon resonance and synthesis procedures are described. A number of applications are presented that take advantage of the electromagnetic field enhancement of the radiative properties of noble metal nanoparticles resulting from the surface plasmon oscillations.

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