Hollow metal nanorods with tunable dimensions, porosity, and photonic properties

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1365-1372

  Sieb, Nathanael R ^a   Wu, Nien Chen ^a   Majidi, Elham ^a   Kukreja, Richa ^a   Branda, Neil R ^a   Gates, Byron D ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrodeposition; Galvanic replacement; Hollow nanostructures; Polycrystalline silver nanorods; Porous nanorods; Surface plasmon resonance; Template directed synthesis

Indexed keywords

GALVANIC REPLACEMENT; HOLLOW NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYCRYSTALLINE SILVER NANORODS; POROUS NANORODS; TEMPLATE DIRECTED SYNTHESIS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODEPOSITION; PLASMONS; POROSITY; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

NANORODS;

EID: 67651211056     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn900099t     Document Type: Article

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