Fabrication Of Water Soluble Gold Nanoparticle Aggregates

Author : Tingling Rao
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
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Download or read book Nanomanufacturing of Gold Nanoparticle Superstructures from the "bottom-up" written by Tingling Rao and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold nanoparticles that can generate surface plasmons under appropriate conditions have attracted significant interest for their potential in optics, photonics, data storage and biological sensors. Developing high fidelity fabrication methods that yield gold nanoparticles with well-defined size, shape, composition and self-assembly allows manipulation of surface plasmonic properties for novel applications as well as revealing new aspects of the underlying science. This dissertation demonstrates multiple techniques that describe cost-effective "bottom-up" fabrication methods that yield gold nano-superstructures. In my initial work, I outline the solution conditions for fabricating Janus nanoparticles composed of one gold nanoparticle per micelle. Poly(ethylene oxide)-b-polystyrene (PEO-b-PS) was synthesized and processed into spherical micelles, which served as the template to induce gold nanoparticles growth within the PEO corona in situ. Organic-inorganic hybrid nanoparticle formation was controlled kinetically by manipulating the concentration of both the micelle and reducing agent (HEPES). We also found that under certain condition, PEO-b-PS yielded micelles with pearl-like morphology, which possessed concentrated PEO domains at the interface between two adjacent PS cores. Careful manipulation of reaction conditions afforded gold nanoparticles that grew from the core-shell interface to form 1-dimensional (1-D) periodical gold nanoparticle chains. Based on similar principles, gold-gold dimers were synthesized by growing a second gold nanoparticle from a gold nanoparticle template surface-functionalized with PEO ligands. Gold dimers fabricated with this method exhibited strong enhancement properties via surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Instead of kinetic control, the number of newly grown gold nanoparticles on each particle template heavily relied on the PEO density on the nanoparticle template. As the size of the particle template increased from 10 nm to 48 nm, the corresponding number of PEO chains on each particle was estimated to increase proportionally from 6 to 140. Consequently, the structure of the final products could be manipulated from gold dimer to raspberry-like structures. The third part of my work demonstrated the fabrication of 2-dimensional (2-D) gold nanoparticle arrays using peptide-derivatized block copolymer thin film templates. A triblock polystyrene-b-poly(methyl methacrylate)-b-A3 peptide (PS-b-PMMA-A3) was synthesized and processed into thin film with highly-ordered surface patterns via cold zone annealing (CZA). Gold nanoparticles were selectively immobilized onto PMMA domains due to the binding affinity of A3 peptide located at the PMMA chain end. Gold nanoparticle structures such as hexagonally-packed gold nanoparticle clusters and parallel gold nanoparticle wires have been achieved using this method. GISAXS results indicate that the hexagonal gold-hierarchical structure is constituted of two different structures: a primary structure induced by nanofeatures on the thin film template and a secondary structure formed through gold nanoparticle packing within each cluster domain. Selectivity of the thin film template to gold nanoparticles and the nanoparticle aggregation are two competing phenomena that affect resolution of the hierarchical structures.