期刊
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
卷 3, 期 10, 页码 3942-3947出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am200825f
关键词
gold nanoparticle; silica shell; plasmon; aggregation; assay; interparticle; core-shell; red shift; diglycerylsilane
资金
- NSERC Network on Bioactive Paper
Differences in the wavelengths of the surface plasmon. band of gold nanoparticles (AuNP) - before and after particle aggregation - are widely used in bioanalytical assays. However, the gold surfaces in such bioassays can suffer from exchange and desorption of noncovalently bound ligands and from nonspecific adsorption of biomolecules. Silica shells on the surfaces of the gold can extend the available surface chemistries for bioconjugation and potentially avoid these issues. Therefore, silica was grown on gold surfaces using either hydrolysis/condensation of tetraethyl orthosilicate 1 under basic conditions or diglyceroxysilane 2 at neutral pH. The former precursor permitted slow, controlled growth of shells from about 1.7 to 4.3 nm thickness. By contrast, 3-4 nm thick silica shells formed within an hour using diglyceroxysilane; thinner or thicker shells were not readily available. Within the range of shell thicknesses synthesized, the presence of a silica shell on the gold nanoparticle did not significantly affect the absorbance maximum (similar to 5 nm) of unaggregated particles. However, the change in absorbance wavelength upon aggregation of the particles was highly dependent on the thickness of the shell. With silica shells coating the AuNP, there was a significant decrease in the absorbance maximum of the aggregated particles, from similar to 578 to similar to 536 nm, as the shell thicknesses increased from similar to 1.7 to similar to 4.3 nm, because of increased distance between adjacent gold cores. These studies provide guidance for the development of colorimetric assays using silica-coated AuNP.
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