Self-assembled nanogaps via seed-mediated growth of end-to-end linked Gold nanorods

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 828-834

  Jain, Titoo ^a   Westerlund, Fredrik ^a   Johnson, Erik ^b,c   Moth Poulsen, Kasper ^a   Bjørnholm, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gold nanorods; Linear dichroism; Molecular electronics; Nanogap; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ASSEMBLY; DITHIOL; DITHIOL MOLECULES; FUNCTIONALIZED; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD NANOROD; GOLD NANORODS; GROWTH CONDITIONS; HIGH PROBABILITY; LINEAR DICHROISM; LINKER MOLECULES; NANO SCALE; NANO-ELECTRODES; NANOGAP; NANOGAPS; SEED MEDIATED GROWTH; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SINGLE MOLECULE; WIDE GAP;

DICHROISM; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULES; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; PLASMONS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; POLYETHYLENE OXIDES; SELF ASSEMBLY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GOLD;

EID: 67049087094     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900066w     Document Type: Article

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