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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 114, Issue 16, Pages 7346-7355Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp909251v
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- National Science Foundation [IGERT DGE-9987589, NIRT CCR-0303976, DMR 0648837, DMR 0820404]
- DOE [DE-FG02-07ER46414]
- National Institutes of Health [R01 EB000268]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-07ER46414] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We investigated the ordering of gold nanowires that settled from an aqueous suspension onto a glass substrate due to gravity. The nanowires, ca. 300 nm in cross-sectional diameter and ca. 2, 4, or 7 mu m in length, were coated with 2-mercaptoethanesullonic acid to provide electrostatic repulsion and prevent aggregation. The layer of nanowires in direct contact with the substrate was examined from below using optical microscopy and found to exhibit smectic-like ordering. The extent of smectic ordering depended on nanowire length, with the shortest (2 mu m) nanowires exhibiting the best ordering. To understand the assembly in this system, we used canonical Monte Carlo simulations to model the two-dimensional ordering of the nanowires on a substrate. We accounted for van der Waals and electrostatic interactions between the nanowires. The simulations reproduced the experimental trends and showed that roughness at the ends of the nanowires, which locally increased electrostatic repulsion, is critical to correctly predicting the experimentally observed smectic ordering.
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