Side-by-Side and End-to-End Gold Nanorod Assemblies for Environmental Toxin Sensing

摘要

Controllable assembly of nanoscale building blocks (monomers) is a necessary part of practical realization of the unique optical, electrical, magnetic, and chemical properties of nanoscale matter in macroscale materials. Such assemblies also contain much fundamental information about collective behavior of nanocolloids, which we are just beginning to understand.