Development of sustainable nano-architectures for plasmonic applications

Abstract

Plasmonic nanostructures that are uniform in size and shape are highly desirable for many applications, including plasmon-enhanced solar cells and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) sensing. Unfortunately, such structures are often difficult and costly to fabricate, which limits their widespread application. Therefore, there is great interest in sustainable plasmonic architectures that can be manufactured using low cost, energy-efficient fabrication strategies, using earth-abundant metals. The recent progress towards the development of sustainable plasmonic architectures for a variety of applications, including rapid diagnostics and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensing is presented.