Are Nanoparticles Spherical or Quasi-Spherical?

Tunable Plasmonic Nanoparticles Based on Prolate Spheroids

Metallic nanoparticles can exhibit very large optical extinction in the visible spectrum due to localized surface plasmon resonance. Spherical plasmonic nanoparticles have been the subject of numerous studies in recent years due to the fact that the scattering response of spheres can be analytically evaluated using Mie theory. However a major disadvantage of metallic spherical nanoparticles is ...

Quasi-spherical silver nanoparticles: aqueous synthesis and size control by the seed-mediated Lee-Meisel method.

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are attracting tremendous attention in biomedicine, and their related performances are shape and size-dependent. For biomedical applications, water-soluble AgNPs are necessary. However, aqueous syntheses of AgNPs with controlled shape and size are relatively difficult as the balance between nucleation and growth is hard to regulate. This paper describes a robust met...

Toward Coordinated Colloids: Site-Selective Growth of Titania on Patchy Silica Particles

Rational synthesis of coordinated spherical colloids is reported by site-selective growth of secondary hemispherical patches on primary spherical particles with quasi-defined coordination numbers and positions. We clarify the importance of mass transport phenomena on the site-specific secondary nucleation/growth in nanoparticulate colloidal systems. By comparing ultrasonic and conventional agit...

An Exact Solution for Quasi-Static Poro-Thermoelasticity in Spherical Coordin

In this paper the Quasi-Static poro-thermoelasticity model of a hollow and solid sphere under radial symmetric loading condition (r, t) is considered. A full analytical method is used and an exact unique solution of the Quasi-Static equations is presented. The thermal, mechanical and pressure boundary conditions, the body force, the heat source and the injected volume rate per unit volume of a ...

Development of a Mild Hydrothermal Method toward Preparation of ZnS Spherical Nanoparticles