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ADVANCED MATERIALS
卷 35, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202208299
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Au nanorods; chiral seeded growth; plasmonic optical activity; twisted nanoparticles; Wulff construction
A chiral growth method using cysteine as a dissymmetry inducer was developed to prepare gold nanorods with twisted morphology. Electron microscopy analysis suggests that the dissymmetry is caused by the development of chiral facets on the initial nanorods, resulting in a twisted shape. Cysteine plays a crucial role in assisting the enantioselective facet evolution, leading to the formation of highly chiral morphology with significant plasmonic optical activity.
A robust and reproducible methodology to prepare stable inorganic nanoparticles with chiral morphology may hold the key to the practical utilization of these materials. An optimized chiral growth method to prepare fourfold twisted gold nanorods is described herein, where the amino acid cysteine is used as a dissymmetry inducer. Four tilted ridges are found to develop on the surface of single-crystal nanorods upon repeated reduction of HAuCl4, in the presence of cysteine as the chiral inducer and ascorbic acid as a reducing agent. From detailed electron microscopy analysis of the crystallographic structures, it is proposed that the dissymmetry results from the development of chiral facets in the form of protrusions (tilted ridges) on the initial nanorods, eventually leading to a twisted shape. The role of cysteine is attributed to assisting enantioselective facet evolution, which is supported by density functional theory simulations of the surface energies, modified upon adsorption of the chiral molecule. The development of R-type and S-type chiral structures (small facets, terraces, or kinks) would thus be non-equal, removing the mirror symmetry of the Au NR and in turn resulting in a markedly chiral morphology with high plasmonic optical activity.
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