title: Why gold nanoparticles are more precious than pretty gold: noble metal surface plasmon resonance and its enhancement of the radiative and nonradiative properties of nanocrystals of different shapes.
abstract: This tutorial review presents an introduction to the field of noble metal nanoparticles and their current applications. The origin of the surface plasmon resonance and synthesis procedures are described. A number of applications are presented that take advantage of the electromagnetic field enhancement of the radiative properties of noble metal nanoparticles resulting from the surface plasmon oscillations.
authors.affiliation: Laser Dynamics Laboratory, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
authors.forename: Susie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Eustis
authors.forename: Mostafa A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: el-Sayed
mesh_terms: D002384:Catalysis; D003460:Crystallization; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D011827:Radiation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance
chemical_list: D006046:Gold