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Abstract
Gold nanorod (Au NR) is an attractive material due to its superior physical and chemical properties. Various applications in diagnostics and biomedicine have been demonstrated. The single-pulse laser is commonly used to reshape nanoparticles in a solvent; however, the laser-material reaction mechanisms underlying nanoparticle reshaping remain unclear. Here, we report the reshaping of Au NRs by ultrafast pump-probe-like double-pulse laser irradiation to understand the reaction dynamics. We demonstrate the enhancement of double-pulse–induced reshaping, which provides an opportunity to design new Au NR structures. It shows that the reshaping enhancement is dependent on the delay time (${\tau _s}$) between a pair of separated pulses. The absorption peak wavelength of Au NRs exposed to the shaped double pulse was lower than that of using a single pulse of the same total fluence when ${\tau _s}$ was less than the electron–phonon relaxation time. This phenomenon was mainly attributed to changes in electronic heat transport and electron–phonon coupling, which affected the pulse delay-dependent nanorod (NR) temperature.
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