Abstract
The intense study devoted to metal nanoparticles is motivated by their extremely interesting optical properties. Such properties have already been described by Faraday some 150 years ago [1], and still give raise to hundreds of scientific articles every year. The origin of such a special optical behaviour can be found in the interaction between incoming light and the free conduction electrons [2], When the wavelength of light couples with the oscillation frequency of the conduction electrons, a so-called plasmon resonance arises, which is manifested as an intense absorption band. The most spectacular cases are found when such plasmon resonance band exists in the visible wavelength range, since then the dispersions of metal nanoparticles display brilliant colours. The precise wavelength of the plasmon resonance depends on several parameters, among which particle size and shape, surface charge, and the nature of the environment are probably the most important ones [3].
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Pastoriza-Santos, I., Hamanaka, Y., Fukuta, K., Nakamura, A., Liz-MarzáN, L.M. (2003). Anisotropic Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Optical Properties. In: Liz-Marzán, L.M., Giersig, M. (eds) Low-Dimensional Systems: Theory, Preparation, and Some Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0143-4_6
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