Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Plasmon-driven synthesis of individual metal@semiconductor core@shell nanoparticles

  • Rifat Kamarudheen,
  • Gayatri Kumari,
  • Andrea Baldi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17789-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Light-driven heating of plasmonic metal nanoparticles can activate temperature-sensitive reactions at the nanoscale. Here, the authors exploit such nanoscale plasmonic reactors to drive, control, and spectroscopically track the growth of single metal@semiconductor core@shell nanoparticles.