Plasmonics and Related Nanomaterials
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2021) | Viewed by 3392
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the last few decades, the field of plasmonic-based technologies has seen rapid growth in fundamental research and applications. Indeed, plasmonics is an amazing field dealing with the so-called ‘surface plasmons’, whose extraordinary properties arise from collective oscillations of conductive electrons, induced by electromagnetic radiation, on noble metal nanoparticle surfaces or thin films. Since plasmonic nanostructures have the ability to control light at the nanometer scale, one of the driving forces of the growing interest in this field is innovations in the design and synthesis of metal nanostructures. The perfect control of their size and shape may lead to the precise tuning of plasmon resonances. More recently, plasmonics was further stimulated by the description of several key processes related to the energetic (hot) charge carriers derived from plasmon dephasings, such as their transfer to nearby molecules or materials, leading to new results and applications.
Plasmonics can be described as an interdisciplinary area in which scientists from various backgrounds (chemistry, physics, optics, etc.) aim to discover, understand, and exploit new and exciting phenomena associated with surface plasmons. Discoveries in this area will have a great impact on many fields, including photonics, materials science, computation, biology, and medicine.
Prof. Dr. Frederic Lerouge
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- noble metal nanoparticles
- surface plasmon resonance
- hot charge carriers
- metal-enhanced fluorescence
- SERS
- photocatalysis
- photovoltaics
