“…When SPs are excited under resonance condition, a part of the intercepted light is dissipated through nonradiative damping, resulting in a dramatic rise in temperature in the nanometer-scale vicinity of the particle surface. This nanoscale heat has been of great interest for applications in biomedicine (Kim and Lee, 2019), where photothermal cancer therapy (Vines et al, 2019;Grosges et al, 2018), laser-induced drug release (Yu et al, 2016), nanoparticle-enhanced bioimaging (Cheng et al, 2015;Selvan et al, 2010), LOCs and mPCRs (Roche et al, 2017;Roux et al, 2014;Morganti et al, 2011;Kim et al, 2017;Kimura et al, 2016;Walsh et al, 2015;Son et al, 2016) and solar energy (Neumann et al, 2013;Woolf et al, 2018;Zhou et al, 2016), all rely on this property.…”