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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 356, Issue 1, Pages 151-158Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.12.077
Keywords
Silver nanowires; Thin films; Optical properties
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- Research Corporation [CC6748]
- National Science Foundation [EPS-0903804, CHE-0532242, CHE-0840507]
- NASA [NNX10AN34A]
- State of South Dakota through the Governor's Office of Economic Development
- [NSF-IGERT-0903685]
- EPSCoR
- Office Of The Director [0903804] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Silver nanowires and silver-nanowire thin films have attracted much attention due to their extensive applications in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) and Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence (SEF). Thin films of silver nanowires within polyelectrolyte layers of poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) and poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS) were fabricated by the Spin-Assisted Layer-by-Layer (SA-LbL) method. The surface coverage, thickness, and absorbance properties of the silver-nanowire films were controlled by the number of layers deposited. Both transverse and longitudinal surface plasmon (SP) modes of the silver-nanowires were observed in the absorbance spectra, as was evidence for nanowire interaction. Two-dimensional finite difference time-domain (2D FDTD) simulations predict that the maximum field enhancement occurs at the ends and cross-sectional edges of the wires for the longitudinal and transverse modes, respectively. Silver nanowires were synthesized by a facile, high-yield solvothermal approach, which can be easily manipulated to control the aspect ratio of the nanowires. The effects of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) concentration and molecular weight on the growth of the silver nanowires, which are not documented in the original procedure, are discussed. It is shown that the growth mechanism for silver nanowires in the solvothermal synthesis is similar to that reported for the polyol synthesis. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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