1. Ultrathin Oxide Layer-Wrapped Noble Metal Nanoparticles via Colloidal Electrostatic Self-Assembly for Efficient and Reusable Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates
- Author
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Hongwen Zhang, Guangqiang Liu, Le Zhou, Haoming Bao, Yue Li, and Weiping Cai
- Subjects
Laser ablation ,Materials science ,Oxide ,Nanoparticle ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,engineering.material ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Amorphous solid ,Crystallinity ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Electrochemistry ,engineering ,General Materials Science ,Noble metal ,Nanometre ,Self-assembly ,0210 nano-technology ,Spectroscopy - Abstract
Controllable and flexible fabrication of ultrathin and uniform oxide layer-wrapped noble metal nanoparticles (NPs) has been expected. Here a new strategy is presented for them based on colloidal electrostatic attraction and self-assembly on the metal NPs via one-step laser ablation of noble metal targets in the hydrolysis-induced hydroxide sol solutions at room temperature. The Au NPs, with several tens of nanometers in size, are taken as core part and TiO2 as shell-layer to demonstrate the validity of the presented strategy. It has been shown that the TiO2 shell-wrapped Au NPs are obtained after laser ablation of Au target in the hydrolysis-induced Ti(OH)4 sol solution. The Au NPs are about 35 nm in mean size, and the TiO2 shell layers are amorphous in structure and about 2.5 nm in thickness. The shell thickness is nearly independent of the Au NPs’ size. Further experiments have shown that the thickness and crystallinity of the shell-layer can be tuned and controlled via changing the temperature or pH va...
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- 2017