Self-assembled macroscopic structures of gold nanoparticles

Nadja Bigall; Stephen G. Hickey; Nikolai Gaponik; Alexander Eychmüller

doi:10.1117/12.752365

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31 July 2007 Self-assembled macroscopic structures of gold nanoparticles

Nadja Bigall, Stephen G. Hickey, Nikolai Gaponik, Alexander Eychmüller

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Proceedings Volume 6728, ICONO 2007: Novel Photonics Materials; Optics and Optical Diagnostics of Nanostructures; 67281N (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.752365
Event: The International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 2007, Minsk, Belarus

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Macroscopic materials built from assembled gold nanoparticles are presented. The structure is characterized via SEM. It turns out to consist of a long, tube-like network with several bifurcations. The tubes have diameters in the range of one micrometer. Electron microscopy also indicates that the nanoparticles of the system are still separated from each other. The procedure is likely to be a template mediated assembly with a carbon compound as template, even though the complete growth mechanism still has to be investigated.

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Nadja Bigall, Stephen G. Hickey, Nikolai Gaponik, and Alexander Eychmüller "Self-assembled macroscopic structures of gold nanoparticles", Proc. SPIE 6728, ICONO 2007: Novel Photonics Materials; Optics and Optical Diagnostics of Nanostructures, 67281N (31 July 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.752365

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