Fang, Ping-Ping; Chen, Shu; Deng, Haiqiang; Scanlon, Micheál D.; Gumy, Frédéric; Lee, Hye Jin; Momotenko, Dmitry; Amstutz, Véronique; Cortés-Salazar, Fernando; Pereira, Carlos M.; Yang, Zhilin and Girault, Hubert H.

2013

September

Acs Nano

Conductive gold nanoparticle mirrors at liquid/liquid interfaces

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Gold nanoparticle (Au NP) mirrors, which exhibit both high reflectance and electrical conductance, were self-assembled at a [heptane + 1,2-dichloroethane]/water liquid/liquid interface. The highest reflectance, as observed experimentally and confirmed by finite difference time domain calculations, occurred for Au NP films consisting of 60 nm diameter NPs and approximate monolayer surface coverage. Scanning electrochemical microscopy approach curves over the interfacial metallic NP films revealed a transition from an insulating to a conducting electrical material on reaching a surface coverage at least equivalent to the formation of a single monolayer. Reflectance and conductance transitions were interpreted as critical junctures corresponding to a surface coverage that exceeded the percolation threshold of the Au NP films at the [heptane + 1,2-dichloroethane]/water interface.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/nn403879g doi=10.1021/nn403879g

10.1021/nn403879g