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Multipole Radiations from Large Gold Nanospheres Excited by Evanescent Wave
摘要： We proposed the use of the evanescent wave generated in a total internal reflection configuration to excite large gold nanospheres and investigated the radiations of the high-order plasmon modes supported in gold nanospheres. It was revealed that the evanescent wave excitation is equivalent to the excitation by using both the incident and reflected light, offering us the opportunity to control the orientation of the electric field used to excite nanoparticles. In addition, it was found that the scattering light intensity is greatly enhanced and the background noise is considerably suppressed, making it possible to detect the radiations from high-order plasmon modes. Moreover, the influence of the mirror images on the scattering induced by a metal substrate is eliminated as compared with the surface plasmon polariton excitation. By exciting a gold nanosphere with s-polarized light and detecting the scattering light with a p-polarized analyzer, we were able to reveal the radiation from the electric quadrupole mode of the gold nanosphere in both the spatial and the frequency domains. Our findings are important for characterizing the radiations from the high-order modes of large nanoparticles and useful for designing nanoscale photonic devices.
关键词： scattering,plasmon mode,electric dipole,radiation pattern,gold nanosphere,evanescent wave,electric octupole,electric quadrupole
更新于2025-11-21 11:24:58
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Ordered Array of Metal Particles on Semishell Separated with Ultrathin Oxide: Fabrication and SERS Properties
摘要： Metal particles in gap cavities provide an interesting system to achieve hybrid local surface plasmon modes for local field enhancement. Here, we demonstrate a relatively simple method to fabricate Ag nanoparticles positioned on Ag semishells separated by a thin (~5 nm) dielectric layer. The obtained structure can provide strong local electric field enhancement for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The fabrication of the ordered array structure was realized by nanosphere self-assembly, atomic layer deposition, and metal thin-film dewetting. Numerical simulation proved that, compared to the conventional metal semishell arrays, the additional Ag particles introduce extra hot spots particularly in the valley regions between adjacent Ag semishells. As a result, the SERS enhancement factor of the metal semishell-based plasmonic structure could be further improved by an order of magnitude. The developed novel plasmonic structure also shows good potential for application in plasmon-enhanced solar water-splitting devices.
关键词： particle in cavity,nanosphere lithography,surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS),surface plasmonic,monolayer self-assembly
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Tumor recognition of peanut agglutinin-immobilized fluorescent nanospheres in biopsied human tissues
摘要： We are investigating an imaging agent for early detection of colorectal cancer. The agent, named the nanobeacon, is coumarin 6-encapsulated polystyrene nanospheres whose surfaces are covered with poly(N-vinylacetamide) and peanut agglutinin that reduces non-specific interactions with the normal mucosa and exhibits high affinity for terminal sugars of the Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen, which is expressed cancer-specifically on the mucosa, respectively. We expect that cancer can be diagnosed by detecting illumination of intracolonically administered nanobeacon on the mucosal surface. In the present study, biopsied human tissues were used to evaluate the potential use of the nanobeacon in the clinic. Prior to the clinical study, diagnostic capabilities of the nanobeacon for detection of colorectal cancer were validated using 20 production batches whose characteristics were fine-tuned chemically for the purpose. Ex vivo imaging studies on 66 normal and 69 cancer tissues removed from the colons of normal and orthotopic mouse models of human colorectal cancer, respectively, demonstrated that the nanobeacon detected colorectal cancer with excellent capabilities whose rates of true and false positives were 91% and 5%, respectively. In the clinical study, normal and tumor tissues on the large intestinal mucosa were biopsied endoscopically from 11 patients with colorectal tumors. Histological evaluation revealed that 9 patients suffered from cancer and the rest had adenoma. Mean fluorescence intensities of tumor tissues treated with the nanobeacon were significantly higher than those of the corresponding normal tissues. Correlation of magnitude relation of the intensity in individuals was observed in cancer patients with a high probability (89%); however, the probability reduced to 50% in adenoma patients. There was a reasonable likelihood for diagnosis of colorectal cancer by the nanobeacon applied to the mucosa of the large intestine.
关键词： Colorectal cancer,Diagnostic agent,Optical imaging,Peanut agglutinin,Biomarker imaging,Nanosphere,Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen
更新于2025-09-23 15:22:29
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Design of Au@WO3 core?shell structured nanospheres for ppb-level NO2 sensing
摘要： As motivated by the driving force of the urgent demand for high-performance nitrogen dioxide (NO2) sensor, in this work, a novel structure of Au@WO3 core?shell nanospheres (CSNSs) was designed and successfully prepared for NO2 detection. The techniques of X-ray diffraction, field emission scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller measurement, and elemental mapping analysis were used for the characterizations of the obtained samples. The results demonstrated that Au nanoparticles with 25?50 nm in diameter were successfully encapsulated by WO3 shells with the thickness of 30?50 nm. The NO2 sensing performance of the Au@WO3 CSNSs as well as the pure WO3 nanospheres were systematically investigated. Compared with the pure WO3 nanospheres, Au@WO3 CNNSs exhibited overall enhanced NO2 sensing performances in terms of response, detection limit, and response/recovery times. At the optimal operating temperature of 100 °C, Au@WO3 CSNSs showed excellent NO2 selectivity and long-term stability. Notably, the excellent NO2 sensing performance of Au@WO3 CSNSs was slightly affected by humidity. The possible sensing mechanism of the enhanced NO2 sensing properties of the Au@WO3 CSNSs was discussed.
关键词： Au@WO3,Core?shell structure,Nanosphere,Gas sensor,NO2
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Functionalized Holmium-Doped Hollow Silica Nanospheres for Combined Sonodynamic and Hypoxia-Activated Therapy
摘要： The oxygen concentration dependence of sonodynamic therapy (SDT) and bioreductive therapy can be utilized to design the strategy of synergistic therapy. Herein, holmium-doped hollow silica nanospheres are synthesized and then sequentially modified with chlorin e6, carboxyl poly(ethylene glycol) silane, and prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) monoclonal antibody. The resultant nanocomposite designated as HHSN-C/P-mAb has good biocompatibility and can specifically target cancer cells overexpressing PSCA. Due to the inner cavity structure and Ho doping, HHSN-C/P-mAb shows high ultrasound (US) imaging contrast capability and excellent high-field magnetic resonance contrast performance. HHSN-C/P-mAb can act as a nanocarrier for loading the bioreductive prodrug tirapazamine (TPZ), and the degradation of the hollow nanospheres under the trigger of acidic microenvironment favors the pH responsive release of TPZ from the material. Upon US irradiation, HHSN-C/P-mAb produces reactive oxygen species to kill the cancer cells, and importantly, the oxygen consumption during SDT induces an intratumoral hypoxic environment to activate the therapeutic function of codelivered TPZ, resulting in a high-effective synergistic therapy. The findings of this study highlight that HHSN-C/P-mAb is a versatile theranostic nanoplatform for efficient cancer treatment.
关键词： magnetic resonance imaging,sonodynamic therapy,ultrasound imaging,holmium-doped hollow silica nanosphere,bioreductive therapy
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Optical properties of ZnO deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD) on Si nanowires
摘要： In this work, we report proof-of-concept results on the synthesis of Si core/ ZnO shell nanowires (SiNWs/ZnO) by combining nanosphere lithography (NSL), metal assisted chemical etching (MACE) and atomic layer deposition (ALD). The structural properties of the SiNWs/ZnO nanostructures prepared were investigated by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopies. The X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that all samples have a hexagonal wurtzite structure. The grain sizes are found to be in the range of 7–14 nm. The optical properties of the samples were investigated using reflectance and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The study of photoluminescence (PL) spectra of SiNWs/ZnO samples showed the domination of defect emission bands, pointing to deviations of the stoichiometry of the prepared 3D ZnO nanostructures. Reduction of the PL intensity of the SiNWs/ZnO with the increase of SiNWs etching time was observed, depicting an advanced light scattering with the increase of the nanowire length. These results open up new prospects for the design of electronic and sensing devices.
关键词： nanosphere lithography (NSL),atomic layer deposition (ALD),Silicon nanowires (SiNWs),metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE),ZnO
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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[Springer Series in Optical Sciences] Fano Resonances in Optics and Microwaves Volume 219 (Physics and Applications) || A Full-Retarded Spectral Technique for the Analysis of Fano Resonances in a Dielectric Nanosphere
摘要： We introduce a representation of the electromagnetic ?eld scattered by a homogeneous sphere in terms of a set of full-retarded modes independent of its permittivity. Within this framework, we introduce the orthogonality properties of the modes, their resonance conditions, and their classi?cation into narrow and broad modes. We also discuss the role played by the material properties in determining the resonant width of a given mode and in enabling or preventing the multimode interference. We use this theory to unveil the origin of Fano lineshapes in the scattering ef?ciency of a spherical nanoparticle, by identifying the interfering modes responsible for peaks and dips. Eventually, by using the introduced theoretical approach, we design the permittivity of a homogeneous sphere of size comparable to the incident wavelength to cancel its backscattering through directional multimode interference.
关键词： full-retarded modes,Fano resonances,electromagnetic scattering,permittivity design,dielectric nanosphere
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Laser-Generated BiVO4 Colloidal Particles with Tailoring Size and Native Oxygen Defect for Highly Efficient Gas Sensing
摘要： To alleviate the poor sensing performance of BiVO4, developing new strategies for the fabrication of unique device with improved sensing properties is very necessary and has great practical significance. In this work, size-tailored and uniform black BiVO4 colloids with abundant oxygen vacancy were synthesized by a unique method of pulsed laser irradiation of colloidal nanoparticles (PLICN). The corresponding laser irradiation effects on the sensing properties are comparatively investigated. The results indicate that the BiVO4 nanospheres with average size of 50 nm shows best sensing properties with high sensitivity, superior selectivity, low detection limit (44 ppb) to H2S at low working temperature (75 oC). Its sensing response is over 4 times higher when comparing with that of the raw material. Further investigation manifests that laser irradiation could induce quantity of the oxygen vacancy and decrease the resistance of the sensing device, which is mainly responsible for the enhanced sensing performance. Moreover, the density functional theories (DFT) calculations suggest that the oxygen vacancies can greatly decrease the surface absorption energy with enhanced H2S absorption capability on BiVO4 surface and lower the bader charger transfer from the absorbed H2S molecules to the BiVO4, thus enabling the implementation for the enhanced gas-sensing properties.
关键词： Pulsed laser irradiation,Hydrogen sulfide,Bismuth vanadate,Nanosphere,Gas sensor
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Modification of Graphene based on Ba2Cu8Ni2Se12 Catalyst with CoS Nanosphere for Counter Electrode for Dye-sensitized solar cell
摘要： A novel Graphene-Ba2Cu8Ni2Se12 with CoS Nanosphere (GBC) was synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method for use as a Counter electrode (CE) in Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). In this work, the Ba2Cu8Ni2Se12 (BCNS) and CoS nanosphere were directly grown on graphene sheets with strong interaction. The morphology, electrochemical and photovoltaic performances of GBC were studied. The GBC CE in bifacial DSSCs showed higher power conversion efficiency (12.37%), which is comparable to the traditional Pt electrode (4.07%). This value noticeably that the synergetic effect of the GBC structure provides a large catalytic active area and excellent of electron transfer partway. The GBC CE exhibiting good device performance, which can serve as low-cost CE than Pt for the DSSC application.
关键词： CoS Nanosphere,Counter electrode,Graphene,Dye-sensitized solar cells,Ba2Cu8Ni2Se12
更新于2025-09-23 15:19:57
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Transition from discrete patches to plasmonic nanohole array by glancing angle deposition on nanosphere monolayers
摘要： By combining nanosphere lithography and glancing angle deposition, a morphological transition from disconnected patchy silver (Ag) coated nanosphere particles to a connected Ag nanohole sheet on close-packed nanosphere monolayers has been demonstrated, which significantly changes the optical property of the Ag nanostructure deposited. For different sized nanosphere monolayers, when the vapor incident angle was set to be 55o, the transmission spectra showed complicated features when the Ag deposition thickness was less than 60 nm. When the thickness was large enough (> 60 nm), a distinguished extraordinary optical transmission (EOT) peak was observed. The EOT peak wavelength position is independent of the Ag thickness deposited and is proportional to the nanosphere diameter. The obtained EOT peaks possess a high quality factor and have high transmission values compared to those reported in the literature for similar structures. Such a high quality EOT response could be used for constructing better sensors or developing other plasmonic applications.
关键词： extraordinary optical transmission,nanosphere lithography,glancing angle deposition,silver nanoparticles,plasmonic nanohole array
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59