On the road to plasmonics with silver polyhedral nanocrystals: Researchers find simpler approach to making plasmonic materials
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 17:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers may have opened the door to a simpler approach for the fabrication of plasmonic materials -- one of the hottest new fields in high tech -- by inducing polyhedral-shaped silver nanocrystals to self-assemble into three-dimensional millimeter-sized supercrystals of the highest possible density.