Photoinduced Multiple Spectral Changes of Single Plasmonic Gold Nanospheres by the Aid of Coordination

One or both of two localized surface plasmon modes (full-surface mode and interface mode) of a commercially available single Au nanosphere on TiO2 are excited, and the corresponding spectral changes are induced in the presence of thiocyanate. Similar spectral changes can be simulated by assuming site-selective oxidation of the Au nanosphere by plasmon-induced charge separation (PICS).