Cover Picture: Transformable Plasmonic Helix with Swinging Gold Nanoparticles (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 9/2023)

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MAC it happen : Presented is a study of the synergistic structuredirecting effect of metal–amine complexes (MACs) with different chelating polyamine ligands and imidazolium-based ionic liquid (IL) cations. For the first time, a layered selenidostannate with an asymmetric eight-membered ring, an organic-decorated layered selenidostannate, and a 3D selenidostannate with both the MAC and IL cation...

Glucose and Froctose Detection Using Raman Spectroscopy and Plasmonic Substrates Coated with Gold Nanoparticles

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Optical detection of brain cell activity using plasmonic gold nanoparticles.

Metal nanoparticles are being actively explored for applications that use localized surface plasmon (LSP) resonance for optical sensing. Here we report an electrostatic field sensing technique which has been applied to detection of mammalian brain cell activity, by optically measuring the cellular potential induced shift in the SP resonance mode of an adjacent planar gold nanoparticle array. An...

Towards Effective Photothermal/Photodynamic Treatment Using Plasmonic Gold Nanoparticles

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) of different size and shape are widely used as photosensitizers for cancer diagnostics and plasmonic photothermal (PPT)/photodynamic (PDT) therapy, as nanocarriers for drug delivery and laser-mediated pathogen killing, even the underlying mechanisms of treatment effects remain poorly understood. There is a need in analyzing and improving the ways to increase accumulat...