Outside Front Cover: Volume 2 Issue 4

Outside front cover image: Plasmonic effects in nanomaterials, metal nanoparticles in particular, have been applied in a variety of fields, such as plasmon-enhanced spectroscopies (e.g. surface-enhanced Raman scattering, surface-enhanced fluorescence, plasmon-enhanced optical activity…), photocatalysis, cancer therapy, etc. The performance of plasmonic nanometals can be further enhanced by combining them with metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which feature well-defined pore size, large surface-area, diverse chemical/physical information, and efficient capture of specific molecules. The resulting hybrid nanomaterials, known as plasmonic MOFs, offer improved and further extended applications through a synergistic activity. Application-oriented topologies and compositions of plasmonic MOFs can be precisely controlled by means of thermodynamic and kinetic parameters during the synthetic process. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smm2.1047)