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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
Tunable elastic modulus of nanoparticle monolayer films by host-guest chemistry
Youngdo Jeong1, Yu-Cheng Chen, Merve K Turksoy
1Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts, 01003, USA.
Abstract:
The elastic modulus of an ultrathin nanoparticle (NP) monolayer film is tuned by modulating the binding strength between the NPs on a molecular level. NP monolayer films constructed by crosslinking NPs of different binding affinities are fabricated at oil/water interfaces. By inducing buckling patterns on these films, the correlation between the binding affinity of the NPs and the elastic modulus is investigated.
