Nanoparticles: Optical Properties and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Nanoparticles display a high surface-to-volume ratio and strong size-dependent optical and electronic properties, which make them ideal for developing highly sensitive devices or active agents.

The optical properties of nanoparticles spark the interests of researchers due to their strong extinction efficiency in the visible spectrum. These properties became one of the great triumphs of classical physics when Mie presented a solution to Maxwell's equations that describes the extinction spectra of spherical particles of arbitrary size.

Nanoparticles are currently of considerable interest due to their broad applications in catalysis, electrochemical sensors, gas sensors, optical biosensors, capacitors, read heads, nano-electronics, memories, transducers, integral chip inductors, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, gamma-ray detectors, optoelectronic devices, antibacterial activity, the degradation of environmental pollutants, biological labeling, cardiovascular implants, wound dressing, disease diagnosis and treatment, drug delivery, and cancer therapy.

Dr. Elham Gharibshahi
Dr. Miltiadis (Miltos) Alamaniotis
Guest Editors

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