Multiplexed Assembly of Plasmonic Nanostructures Through Charge Inversion on Substrate for Surface Encoding.

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials Laboratory (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices , Soochow University, Suzhou 215123 , China.

Published: February 2020

Plasmonic nanomaterials are excellent and promising building blocks for information encoding and decoding. However, the positioning of multiplexed nanomaterials into recognizable structures remains a major challenge in nanotechnology. Herein, we developed a novel method for fabricating diversified nanostructures through surface charge inversion from amino-modified substrates to carboxyl-modified ones, as well as the corresponding electrostatic-induced assembly of metal nanoparticles. Under optimal conditions, the selected gold nanospheres (NSs) and peanut-like gold nanorods were successively located into patterns of spaced lines on the same substrate. Due to their unique optical properties, these two types of designed nanoarrays exhibited distinct color contrast and spectrum difference under dark-field scattering microscopy. Furthermore, this general strategy can be extended to wide ranges of nanoparticles with different morphologies and compositions for other multifunctional and high-demanding encoding applications.

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