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Plasmonics and chirality in metal nanomaterials are intriguing and inspiring phenomena. Nanoscale chirality of metal nanomaterials has emerged as a hot topic in the past several years. Generally, most plasmon-induced circular dichroism (CD) responses of nanomaterials (> 10 nm) have been artificially created by modifying pre-made achiral nanomaterials with chiral agents, because the in situ generation of plasmon-induced CD responses of nanomaterials with larger size (> 10 nm) is not easy. Herein, we report a simple one-pot green synthesis of chiral gold nanoflowers (GNFs) with abundant petal-shaped tips in the chiral reduction environment arising from the presence of chiral guanosine 5ʹ-monophosphate (5ʹ-GMP) and the chiral reducing agent L-ascorbic acid (L-AA). Different reducing agents can impact the shape and chirality of the products. In addition, the size and chirality of the GNFs can be controlled by adjusting the reaction time. The as-synthesized GNFs have good biocompatibility and can be used for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) enhancement, cellular dark-field imaging and photothermal therapy.

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Received: 28 January 2012
Revised: 24 June 2012
Accepted: 16 July 2012
Published: 12 August 2012
Issue date: September 2012

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© Tsinghua University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

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This work was supported by the National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program) (No. 2010CB933901), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51102258, 20803040, 81028009, 31170961), Chinese Academy of Sciences Professorship for Senior International Scientists (No. 2011T2J06), New Century Excellent Talents of the Ministry of Education of China (No. NCET-08-0350), and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. LY12H11011).

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