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A Technique to Functionalize and Self-assemble Macroscopic Nanoparticle-ligand Monolayer Films onto Template-free Substrates
Published on: May 9, 2014
Supramolecular templates for nanoflake-metal surfaces
Yanfei Shen1, Jiaobing Wang, Uwe Kuhlmann
1Department of Interfaces, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Research Campus Golm, Potsdam 14424, Germany.
Abstract:
A sustainable method for the fabrication of metallic surfaces with flower-like fractal morphology was developed by using a three-dimensional supramolecular assembly as a template. Modifying Au nanoflakes with self-assembled monolayers or polymers allows the surface wettability to be adjusted from superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic (see figure). Furthermore, Au nanoflakes present excellent substrates for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).
