Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 6, Issue 6, Pages 5693-5701Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn301824u
Keywords
gold nanorods; directed assembly; controlled orientation; position; spacing; chemical contrast pattern; specificity
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Air Force Research Laboratory Materials & Manufacturing Directorate
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The synergy of self- and directed-assembly processes and lithography provides intriguing avenues to fabricate translationally ordered nanopartide arrangements, but currently lacks the robustness necessary to deliver complex spatial organization. Here, we demonstrate that interparticle spacing and local orientation of gold nanorods (AuNR) can be tuned by controlling the Debye length of AuNR in solution and the dimensions of a chemical contrast pattern. Electrostatic and hydrophobic selectivity for AuNR to absorb to patterned regions of poly(2-vinylpyridine) (P2VP) and polystyrene brushes and mats was demonstrated for AuNR functionalized with mercaptopropane sulfonate (MS) and poly(ethylene glycol), respectively. For P2VP patterns of stripes with widths comparable to the length of the AuNR, single- and double-column arrangements of AuNR oriented parallel and perpendicular to the P2VP line were obtained for MS-AuNR. Furthermore, the spacing of the assembled AuNR was uniform along the stripe and related to the ionic strength of the AuNR dispersion. The different AuNR arrangements are consistent with predictions based on maximization of packing of AuNR within the confined strip.
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