
We use colloidal chemistry approaches for the preparation and surface modification of nanoparticles, hybrid nanoparticles/nanocomposites and assemblies/superstructures with appealing properties (e.g. optical, magnetic, etc.) for a wide range of applications, from optics to biology and photovoltaics.
Our main interest is devoted to the utilization of colloidal nanoparticles of several materials (with a special interest on those holding localized surface plasmons) as building-blocks for the creation of complex, self-assembled, nanostructures with new properties.
We are also interested in:

General strategy for the controlled labeling of lipids in living cell membranes with functionalized Au nanoparticles (Ba et al., Nano Letters 10, 3006 (2010))

Hybrid nanocomposites (Au nanorod-microgel core-shell colloids): Au nanorods can be simultaneously used as fast optothermal manipulators and sensitive optical reporters of the volume phase transition of temperature-sensitive microgel shells based on poly(N-isopropylacrylamide (pNIPAM) (Rodríguez-Fernández et al., Nanotechnology 22, 245708 (2011))

Supercrystals composed of self-assembled, close-packed, copper sulfide (Cu1.97S) nanocrystals show enhanced absorption in the visible-NIR (Kriegel et al., Chem. Mater. 23 ,1830 (2011))
I. Kriegel, C. Jiang, J. Rodríguez-Fernández, R. D. Schaller, D. V. Talapin, E. da Como, J. FeldmannJ. Am. Chem. Soc. 134 (3), 1583 (2012)
J. Rodríguez-Fernández, M. Fedoruk, C. Hrelescu, A. A. Lutich, J. Feldmann
Nanotechnology 22 (24), 245708 (2011)
Vaneski, A. S. Susha, J. Rodríguez-Fernández, M. Berr, F. Jäckel, J. Feldmann, A. L. Rogach
Adv. Funct. Mater. 21 (9), 245708 (2011) (Invited Feature Article)
Kriegel, J. Rodríguez-Fernández, E. Da Como, A. Lutich, J. Szeifert, J. Feldmann
Chemistry of Materials 23 (7), 1830 (2011)
M. Berr, A. Vaneski, A. S. Susha, J. Rodríguez-Fernández, M. Döblinger, F. Jäckel, A. L. Rogach, J Feldmann
Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 093108 (2010)
H. Ba, J. Rodríguez-Fernández, F.D. Stefani, J. Feldmann
Nano Letters 10 (8), 3006 (2010)
(Featured at the web portal of Nano Letters and Publication Award 2010 of the Center for Nanoscience (CeNS), Munich)
D. Gross, A. S. Susha, T. A. Klar, E. Da Como, A. L. Rogach, J. Feldmann
Nano Lett., 8 (5), 1482 (2008)
* For a full publication list of the team members please visit their respective personal homepages linked above.
09.01.2012
"Nano-ear" highlighted in Nature and Science
15.11.2011
LMU report on PRL by F.Deschler et al.
20.10.2011
Fedoruk et al. featured in ACS Nano