Gold NanorodsSynthesis, Characterization and Applications
- Jorge Pérez-Juste 1
- Isabel Pastoriza-Santos 1
- Luis M. Liz-Marzán 2
- Paul Mulvaney 3
- 1 Department of Physical Chemistry and Biomedical Research Center (CINBIO), University of Vigo, As Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain
- 2 CIC biomaGUNE and CIBER-BBN, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, 48013 Bilbao, Spain
- 3 Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010 Australia
- Luis Liz-Marzán (coord.)
Argitaletxea: Jenny Stanford Publishing
ISBN: 9780429295188, 9789814800679
Argitalpen urtea: 2020
Orrialdeak: 15-79
Mota: Liburuko kapitulua
Laburpena
This chapter provides an overview of current research into the synthesis and properties of gold nanorods. It outlines the origin of the shape-dependent optical properties of rods. The chapter focuses on the latest advances in the chemical synthesis of metal nanorods, in particular of gold nanorods, as well as their properties and some applications. It chapter reviews some of the key attributes of non-spherical particles. Comprehensive reviews of the optical properties of metal particles are given in a range of texts and journals that discuss electromagnetic theory, size effects, the light scattering features or the surface chemical perturbations. In 1912, R. Gans predicted that for very small ellipsoids, where the dipole approximation holds, the surface plasmon mode would split into distinct modes. This is a consequence of the surface curvature, which determines classically the restoring force or depolarization field that acts on the confined conduction electron population.