Themed collection Nanoplasmonics

Guest editors Luis Liz-Marzán, Catherine Murphy and Jianfang Wang introduce the Nanoplasmonics themed issue of Chemical Society Reviews.

This review focuses on optical detection and spectroscopy of single nano-objects for nanophysics investigation.

This review highlights recent advances in the field of self-assembled plasmonic nanostructures, their optical properties and applications.

We present a review on the emerging materials for novel plasmonic colloidal nanocrystals.

EELS and cathodoluminescence are highly relevant tools to map plasmons within metallic nanoparticles much smaller than the wavelength of light.

A new class of plasmonic nanomaterials, based upon heavily-doped semiconductors and metal oxides, is rapidly developing and showing great promise for biomedical and optoelectronic applications.

We discuss how nanoplasmonics can benefit chemistry and review the most recent developments in this new and fast growing field of research.

This Tutorial Review introduces the concept of distance dependent plasmon coupling and its application in biosensing and imaging.

This Tutorial Review examines the effects of composition, particle size and shape, overall architecture, and local environment on the optical properties of metal colloids.

We discuss plasmonic nanomaterials as biodiagnostic tools, and how their properties yield tunable optical signals and surface enhanced Raman signals.

Super-resolution imaging defeats the diffraction-limit of light, allowing the spatial origin and intensity of SERS signals to be determined with <5 nm resolution.