Femtosecond Laser-Controlled Tip-to-Tip Assembly and Welding of Gold Nanorods
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- 作者：Guillermo Gonz谩lez-Rubio ; Jes煤s Gonz谩lez-Izquierdo ; Luis Ba帽ares ; Gloria Tardajos ; Antonio Rivera ; Thomas Altantzis ; Sara Bals ; Ovidio Pe帽a-Rodr铆guez ; Andr茅s Guerrero-Mart铆nez ; Luis M. Liz-Marz谩n
- 刊名：Nano Letters
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 9, 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：15
- 期：12
- 页码：8282-8288
- 全文大小：544K
- ISSN：1530-6992
文摘
Directed assembly of gold nanorods through the use of dithiolated molecular linkers is one of the most efficient methodologies for the morphologically controlled tip-to-tip assembly of this type of anisotropic nanocrystals. However, in a direct analogy to molecular polymerization synthesis, this process is characterized by difficulties in chain-growth control over nanoparticle oligomers. In particular, it is nearly impossible to favor the formation of one type of oligomer, making the methodology hard to use for actual applications in nanoplasmonics. We propose here a light-controlled synthetic procedure that allows obtaining selected plasmonic oligomers in high yield and with reaction times in the scale of minutes by irradiation with low fluence near-infrared (NIR) femtosecond laser pulses. Selective inhibition of the formation of gold nanorod n-mers (trimers) with a longitudinal localized surface plasmon in resonance with a 800 nm Ti:sapphire laser, allowed efficient trapping of the (n 鈥?1)-mers (dimers) by hot spot mediated photothermal decomposition of the interparticle molecular linkers. Laser irradiation at higher energies produced near-field enhancement at the interparticle gaps, which is large enough to melt gold nanorod tips, offering a new pathway toward tip-to-tip welding of gold nanorod oligomers with a plasmonic response at the NIR. Thorough optical and electron microscopy characterization indicates that plasmonic oligomers can be selectively trapped and welded, which has been analyzed in terms of a model that predicts with reasonable accuracy the relative concentrations of the main plasmonic species.