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Mostafa A. El-Sayed is an Egyptian-American physical chemist, nanoscience researcher, member of the National Academy of Sciences and US National Medal of Science laureate. He is known for the spectroscopy rule named after him, the El-Sayed rule.

Most cited

772 papers in total

2005 · Chemical Reviews

Chemistry and Properties of Nanocrystals of Different Shapes

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2006 · Journal of the American Chemical Society

Cancer Cell Imaging and Photothermal Therapy in the Near-Infrared Region by Using Gold Nanorods

5,445 citationsRead

2003 · Chemistry of Materials

Preparation and Growth Mechanism of Gold Nanorods (NRs) Using Seed-Mediated Growth Method

5,088 citationsRead

2006 · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Calculated Absorption and Scattering Properties of Gold Nanoparticles of Different Size, Shape, and Composition: Applications in Biological Imaging and Biomedicine

4,636 citationsRead

2008 · Accounts of Chemical Research

Noble Metals on the Nanoscale: Optical and Photothermal Properties and Some Applications in Imaging, Sensing, Biology, and Medicine

4,222 citationsRead

1999 · The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Spectral Properties and Relaxation Dynamics of Surface Plasmon Electronic Oscillations in Gold and Silver Nanodots and Nanorods

3,910 citationsRead