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LANGMUIR
Volume 18, Issue 9, Pages 3694-3697Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la025563y
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Gold nanoparticles (NPs) were prepared by reduction with salicylic acid in aqueous solution. The resulting dispersions were found to contain a mixture of flat triangular/hexagonal and smaller close-to-spherical NPs. As expected from theoretical considerations, such nanocolloids display two clearly differentiated surface plasmon bands at 540 and 860 nm associated with spherical and anisotropic triangular/hexagonal NPs, respectively. Layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly was used to deposit thin films of the Au colloids. UV-visible data indicate preferential adsorption of the flat particles on polyelectrolyte films. Importantly, a new band developed at 650 nm as the number of the Au NPs bilayers increased. This finding indicates that there exists a strong interaction between the NPs in adjacent layers, resulting in the surface plasmon absorption at a new wavelength. The insertion of extra polyelectrolyte or montmorillonite layers between the Au bilayers was shown to gradually reduce the interlayer interaction and resulted in the NP composite films with absorption spectra virtually identical to those of the original dispersion. The bilayer deposition sequence in LBL assembly, i.e. multilayer architecture, can be used to control the strength of NP-NP coupling in the layered composites.
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