IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/nature/v425y2003i6957d10.1038_nature02020.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Controlling anisotropic nanoparticle growth through plasmon excitation

Author

Listed:
  • Rongchao Jin

    (Northwestern University)

  • Y. Charles Cao

    (Northwestern University)

  • Encai Hao

    (Northwestern University)

  • Gabriella S. Métraux

    (Northwestern University)

  • George C. Schatz

    (Northwestern University)

  • Chad A. Mirkin

    (Northwestern University)

Abstract

Inorganic nanoparticles exhibit size-dependent properties that are of interest for applications ranging from biosensing1,2,3,4,5 and catalysis6 to optics7 and data storage8. They are readily available in a wide variety of discrete compositions and sizes9,10,11,12,13,14. Shape-selective synthesis strategies now also yield shapes other than nanospheres, such as anisotropic metal nanostructures with interesting optical properties15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23. Here we demonstrate that the previously described photoinduced method23 for converting silver nanospheres into triangular silver nanocrystals—so-called nanoprisms—can be extended to synthesize relatively monodisperse nanoprisms with desired edge lengths in the 30–120 nm range. The particle growth process is controlled using dual-beam illumination of the nanoparticles, and appears to be driven by surface plasmon excitations. We find that, depending on the illumination wavelengths chosen, the plasmon excitations lead either to fusion of nanoprisms in an edge-selective manner or to the growth of the nanoprisms until they reach their light-controlled final size.

Suggested Citation

  • Rongchao Jin & Y. Charles Cao & Encai Hao & Gabriella S. Métraux & George C. Schatz & Chad A. Mirkin, 2003. "Controlling anisotropic nanoparticle growth through plasmon excitation," Nature, Nature, vol. 425(6957), pages 487-490, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:425:y:2003:i:6957:d:10.1038_nature02020
    DOI: 10.1038/nature02020
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature02020
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/nature02020?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Yongbo Song & Yingwei Li & Meng Zhou & Hao Li & Tingting Xu & Chuanjun Zhou & Feng Ke & Dayujia Huo & Yan Wan & Jialong Jie & Wen Wu Xu & Manzhou Zhu & Rongchao Jin, 2022. "Atomic structure of a seed-sized gold nanoprism," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-7, December.
    2. Li-Juan Liu & Fahri Alkan & Shengli Zhuang & Dongyi Liu & Tehseen Nawaz & Jun Guo & Xiaozhou Luo & Jian He, 2023. "Atomically precise gold nanoclusters at the molecular-to-metallic transition with intrinsic chirality from surface layers," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 14(1), pages 1-12, December.
    3. Bintong Huang & Longfei Miao & Jing Li & Zhipeng Xie & Yong Wang & Jia Chai & Yueming Zhai, 2022. "Identification of plasmon-driven nanoparticle-coalescence-dominated growth of gold nanoplates through nanopore sensing," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:425:y:2003:i:6957:d:10.1038_nature02020. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.