On the road to plasmonics with silver polyhedral nanocrystals: Researchers find simpler approach to making plasmonic materials

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.