Plasmonic Properties of Colloidal Assemblies

The assembly of metal nanoparticles into supracolloidal structures unlocks optical features, which can go beyond synergistic combinations the properties their primary building units. This is due to inter-particle plasmonic coupling effects, give rise emergent properties. motivation for this progress report twofold: First, it described how simulation approaches be used predict and understand clusters. These simulations may form basis rational design architectures, based on desired functional cluster properties, they also spark novel material designs. Second, selected scalable state-of-the-art preparative strategies synthetic polymers guide are discussed. routes allow equipping with adaptive in turn enables (inter-)active control over