Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/21/8/085501
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [90206035, 20520150166]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [CMS-CX200825]
- National Sci-Tech Major Special Item for Water Pollution Control and Management [2009ZX075287-007-03]
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A novel and simple method for gold nanoshell synthesis with controllable core and shell sizes is reported here. A new 'tree-shape' surfactant bis(amidoethyl-carbamoylethyl) octadecylamine (C18N3) was synthesized and used as the glue for the fast combination of gold nanoparticles and the subsequent gold shell outside. The functionalized polystyrene (PS) cores were covered by a surfactant (PS@C18N3) bilayer. The presence of the surfactant double layer played the role of 'glue' in this method, so that upon controlling the amount of surfactant, it was possible to achieve: the manipulation of gold seed density on the PS@C18N3 spheres, the preparation of PS@Au hybrid structures, and a red-shift in the extinction absorption from 520 to 750 nm. Besides, the as-prepared PS@Au composites supported on a glass substrate exhibited excellent effectiveness in the molecular recognition of human-immunoglobulin G (h-IgG) and goat anti-human-immunoglobulin G (goat anti-h-IgG), showing a rapid response within 20 min with a low detection limit of 10 ng ml(-1). This demonstrates that PS@Au prepared and assembled using our method is potentially useful as a nanosensor platform for immunoassay.
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