Light-enabled reversible self-assembly and tunable optical properties of stable hairy nanoparticles
Abstract
This work reports a versatile and robust strategy for creating monodisperse plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) intimately and permanently capped with photoresponsive polymers via capitalizing on amphiphilic star-like diblock copolymer nanoreactors. The reversibly assembled nanostructures comprising photoresponsive NPs may exhibit a broad range of new attributes, functions, and applications as a direct consequence of size-dependent physical property from individual NP and the collective property originated from the NP interaction due to their close proximity within nanostructure.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 31, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1073/pnas.1714748115
Entities
People
- Guangzhao Zhang
- Jaehan Jung
- Yanjie He
- Yihuang Chen
- Young Jun Yoon
- Zewei Wang
- Zhiqun Lin
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Georgia Tech
- National Science Foundation