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Silver Nanodisk: Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2011
Abstract
A new form of silver nanostructured materials, a silver nanodisk, is generated by a solution-phase approach. In this method, two main steps are applied: the first is the generation of the truncated triangular silver nanoplates, which are obtained by seed-mediated growth of silver particles using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) as the soft templates. The second is the mild aging of the above triangular silver nanoplate solution at 40 °C to get the desired silver nanodisks. Transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy studies show that the nanodisk has a thickness of the order of 20 – 30 nm, and a diameter around 60 nm. X-ray and electron diffraction analysis reveal that the nanodisk is single crystal and with its basal plane as (111) lattice plane. These nanodisks display a strong surface plasmon absorption band at 475 nm; this band can be continuously tuned within 420 nm to 560 nm through adjusting the aging time. The formation of self-assembled monolayer of CTAB on the basal plane is suggested to account for both the anisotropic growth from triangular nanoplates to nanodisks, and the formation of large-scale necklace-like structures.
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