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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 44, Issue 4, Pages 999-1014Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4cs00225c
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- Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- European Science Foundation (ESF) through the Eurocores Programme on Self-Organized Nanostructures (SONS)
- Gebert-Ruf Foundation
- DFG excellence cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [60971001]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China [2011CB933001, 2012CB932702]
- NanoSci-E+ program
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) via a Vidi grant
- Dutch 'Zwaartekracht' program Nanofront
- European Commissions (EC) [212942, 213382, 263091, 306754, 318597, 606728]
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Arrays of metal nanoparticles in an organic matrix have attracted a lot of interest due to their diverse electronic and optoelectronic properties. Recent work demonstrates that nanoparticle arrays can be utilized as a template structure to incorporate single molecules. In this arrangement, the nanoparticles act as electronic contacts to the molecules. By varying parameters such as the nanoparticle material, the matrix material, the nanoparticle size, and the interparticle distance, the electronic behavior of the nanoparticle arrays can be substantially tuned and controlled. Furthermore, via the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons, the nanoparticles can be optically excited and electronically read-out. The versatility and possible applications of well-ordered nanoparticle arrays has been demonstrated by the realization of switching devices triggered optically or chemically and by the demonstration of chemical and mechanical sensing. Interestingly, hexagonal nanoparticle arrays may also become a useful platform to study the physics of collective plasmon resonances that can be described as Dirac-like bosonic excitations.
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