Light-induced actuating nanotransducers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 20, 2016, Pages 5503-5507

  Ding, Tao ^a,b   Valev, Ventsislav K ^a,c   Salmon, Andrew R ^a,b   Forman, Chris J ^b   Smoukov, Stoyan K ^b   Scherman, Oren A ^b   Frenkel, Daan ^b   Baumberg, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colloidal; Nanoactuatornanomachine; Plasmonics; PNIPAM

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COOLING; ENERGY; FORCE; HEATING; LASER; LIGHT; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84969814758     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524209113     Document Type: Article

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