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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
Preparation of 1-D nanoparticle superstructures with tailorable thicknesses using gold-binding peptide conjugates
Leekyoung Hwang1, Chun-Long Chen, Nathaniel L Rosi
1Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, 219 Parkman Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Abstract:
We describe the preparation of new 1-D gold nanoparticle superstructures with tailorable thicknesses formed using a self-assembled gold-binding peptide conjugate template and examine how the synthesis and assembly mechanism impacts the organization of the superstructures.

