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Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles: Preparation, Properties, and Applications

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Anisotropic Nanomaterials

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Anisotropic metal nanoparticles with a catalog of promising anisotropic electronic, optical, and chemical properties have been regarded as enabling building blocks in the bottom-up fabrication of functional materials and devices. Specifically, anisotropic gold nanoparticles are currently emerging as fascinating materials due to their unique shape-, size-, and surface-dependent properties. In this chapter, we present the synthesis, properties and applications of different one-, two- and three-dimensional anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). The most widely adopted top-down and bottom-up synthesis approaches have been discussed in addition to some of the recently introduced new methods for the fabrication of differently shaped anisotropic AuNPs. The optical property, photothermal effect, surface enhanced Raman scattering, fluorescence enhancement and quenching, surface modification, toxicology, and supramolecular organizations of anisotropic AuNPs have been highlighted. Various practical and potential applications of anisotropic AuNPs in catalysis, sensing, photothermal therapy, drug and gene delivery, and biological and biomedical areas are briefly outlined.

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Xue, C., Li, Q. (2015). Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles: Preparation, Properties, and Applications. In: Li, Q. (eds) Anisotropic Nanomaterials. NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18293-3_3

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