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Size-Dependent Phase Transfer Functionalization of Gold Nanoparticles To Promote Well-Ordered Self-Assembly.

Florian SchulzSteffen ToberHolger Lange
Published in: Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids (2017)
We present a route for the functionalization of gold nanoparticles (AuNP) based on phase transfer functionalization in order to optimize the stability and the potential for self-assembly. Depending on the desired size, different ligand exchanges have to be employed: The maximum AuNP size that can be stabilized without concentration loss is 46 nm for polystyrene-based ligands with 5 and 10 kDa. Small particles <12 nm are better stabilized by smaller ligands. We are able to demonstrate that well-ordered close-packed monolayers of 28 nm AuNP covering at least 400 μm2 are possible with a potential for much larger areas. Such monolayers are of great interest for various fundamental experiments in the context of plasmonics and SERS and for sensor applications.
Keyphrases
  • gold nanoparticles
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