Water-Based Assembly and Purification of Plasmon-Coupled Gold Nanoparticle Dimers and Trimers

We describe a simple one-pot water-based scheme to produce gold nanoparticle groupings with short interparticle spacings. This approach combines a cross-linking molecule and a hydrophilic passivation layer to control the level of induced aggregation. Suspensions of dimers and trimers are readily obt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sébastien Bidault, Albert Polman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:International Journal of Optics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/387274