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Published on: September 2, 2017
Facile fabrication of self-assembled nanostructures of vertically aligned gold nanorods by using inkjet printing
Koichiro Saito1, Keegan McGehee1, Kengo Manabe1
1Research Institute for Advanced Electronics and Photonics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Higashi 1-1-1 Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8565 Japan koichiro.saito@aist.go.jp.
Abstract:
We demonstrated that the vertically aligned gold nanorods (AuNRs) were quickly and easily formed by using inkjet printing when aqueous dispersion of AuNRs containing a small amount of ethylene glycol (EG) was employed as an ink. It was observed that the content of EG in water suppressed rapid drying and convection in the droplets, which is favorable for the formation of the nanostructures.
