We are delighted to announce that the PCCP themed collection on Optical studies of single metal nanoparticles has now been published online – take a look today!
The themed collection was Guest Edited by Greg Hartland, Hiromi Okamoto, Michel Orrit and Peter Zijlstra – read their Editorial for this issue.
Optical studies of single metal nanoparticles themed collection features a broad range of Papers and Communications and includes the following Perspective and Hot articles:
Spectral properties and electromagnetic field enhancement effects on nano-engineered metallic nanoparticles
Kosei Ueno and Hiroaki Misawa
Optical properties of single coupled plasmonic nanoparticles
Lianming Tong, Hong Wei, Shunping Zhang, Zhipeng Li and Hongxing Xu
Single nanoparticle plasmonics
Emilie Ringe, Bhavya Sharma, Anne-Isabelle Henry, Laurence D. Marks and Richard P. Van Duyne
Surface plasmon coupling in end-to-end linked gold nanorod dimers and trimers
Jatish Kumar , Xingzhan Wei , Steven Barrow , Alison M. Funston , K. George Thomas and Paul Mulvaney
Damping of the acoustic vibrations of a suspended gold nanowire in air and water environments
Todd A. Major , Aurélien Crut , Bo Gao , Shun Shang Lo , Natalia Del Fatti , Fabrice Vallée and Gregory V. Hartland
Nanoparticle surface electromagnetic fields studied by single-particle nonlinear optical spectroscopy
Manabendra Chandra and Kenneth L. Knappenberger
Hyperspectral darkfield microscopy of single hollow gold nanoparticles for biomedical applications
Natasha Fairbairn , Agathi Christofidou , Antonios G. Kanaras , Tracey A. Newman and Otto L. Muskens