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Nano Research 2017, 10(10): 3346-3357 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1547-x
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Polymer-assisted fabrication of gold nanoring arrays

Show Author's Information Hongxu Chen1,  Shilin Mu1,  Liping Fang2,  Huaizhong Shen1,  Junhu Zhang1( ),  Bai Yang1
State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and MaterialsCollege of ChemistryJilin UniversityChangchun130012China
College of Chemistry and Environmental ScienceHebei UniversityBaoding071002China
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self-assembly, colloidal lithography, plasmonic, gold nanorings
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Chen H, Mu S, Fang L, et al. Polymer-assisted fabrication of gold nanoring arrays. Nano Research, 2017, 10(10): 3346-3357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1547-x
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In this paper, we report a new strategy for the fabrication of gold nanoring arrays via colloidal lithography and polymer-assisted self-assembly of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs). First, multi-segmented polymer nanorod arrays were fabricated via colloidal lithography. They were then used as templates for Au NP adsorption, which resulted in nanoparticles on the poly(4-vinyl pyridine) (P4VP) segments. Continuous gold nanorings were formed after electroless deposition of gold. The diameter, quantity, and spacing of the gold nanorings could be tuned. Three dimensional coaxial gold nanorings with varying diameters could be fabricated on a polymer nanorod by modifying the etch parameters. The nanorings exhibited optical plasmonic resonances at theoretically predicted wavelengths. In addition, the polymer-assisted gold nanorings were released from the substrate to generate a high yield of free-standing nanorings. This simple, versatile method was also used to prepare nanorings from other metals such as palladium.


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Polymer-assisted fabrication of gold nanoring arrays

Show Author's information Hongxu Chen1, Shilin Mu1, Liping Fang2, Huaizhong Shen1, Junhu Zhang1( ), Bai Yang1
State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and MaterialsCollege of ChemistryJilin UniversityChangchun130012China
College of Chemistry and Environmental ScienceHebei UniversityBaoding071002China

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In this paper, we report a new strategy for the fabrication of gold nanoring arrays via colloidal lithography and polymer-assisted self-assembly of gold nanoparticles (Au NPs). First, multi-segmented polymer nanorod arrays were fabricated via colloidal lithography. They were then used as templates for Au NP adsorption, which resulted in nanoparticles on the poly(4-vinyl pyridine) (P4VP) segments. Continuous gold nanorings were formed after electroless deposition of gold. The diameter, quantity, and spacing of the gold nanorings could be tuned. Three dimensional coaxial gold nanorings with varying diameters could be fabricated on a polymer nanorod by modifying the etch parameters. The nanorings exhibited optical plasmonic resonances at theoretically predicted wavelengths. In addition, the polymer-assisted gold nanorings were released from the substrate to generate a high yield of free-standing nanorings. This simple, versatile method was also used to prepare nanorings from other metals such as palladium.

Keywords: self-assembly, colloidal lithography, plasmonic, gold nanorings

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Received: 07 January 2017
Revised: 20 February 2017
Accepted: 21 February 2017
Published: 14 June 2017
Issue date: October 2017

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21474037) and Doctoral Fund of Ministry of Education of China (No. 20130061110019).

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