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Surface plasmon & visible light for polymer functionalization of mesopores and manipulation of ionic permselectivity
Nicole Herzog1, Jonas Kind, Christian Hess
1Technische Universität Darmstadt, Ernst-Berl-Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Alarich-Weiss-Str. 4, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany. brunsen@cellulose.tu-darmstadt.de.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 25, 2015
Abstract:
The near-field of surface plasmons is locally confined to nanometer dimensions. Here, we use surface plasmons to initiate polymer-functionalization of mesoporous silica films allowing subsequent ionic permselectivity gating based on polymer charge. We expect this functionalization approach to open a new dimension of functional miniaturization e.g. in nanofluidics.
