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A General Strategy for Self-Assembly of Nanosized Building Blocks on Liquid/Liquid Interfaces

Journal

SMALL
Volume 8, Issue 15, Pages 2412-2420

Publisher

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201200172

Keywords

interfaces; nanofilms; nanostructures; Raman spectroscopy; self-assembly

Funding

  1. National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB934700]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [91022032, 21061160492, J1030412]
  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences [KJZD-EW-M01-1]
  4. International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China [2010DFA41170]
  5. National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory at the University of Science and Technology of China
  6. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [WK 2340000033]

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A family of water/oil interfaces is introduced to provide effective platforms for rapid fabrication of large-area self-assembled nanofilms composed of various nanosized building blocks, including nanoparticles (NPs), nanocubes (NC), nanowires (NWs), and nanosheets, at room temperature. As a general interfacial assembly method, NWs and NPs are co-assembled at the liquid/liquid interface. The as-prepared co-assembled Ag NW and Ag NC films show high surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) intensity, the SERS performance being strongly dependent on the number ratio of the two kinds of nanosized building blocks. The results demonstrate that this interfacial system provides a general method for the assembly of various nanosized building blocks with different shapes and dimensionalities, and thus paves an alternative pathway for further applications of macroscopic assemblies with different functionalities.

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