Controlling assembly of mixed thiol monolayers on silver nanoparticles to tune their surface properties

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3718-3726

  Stewart, Alan ^a   Zheng, Shuai ^a   McCourt, Maighréad R ^a   Bell, Steven E J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colloid; Mixed monolayers; Nanoparticles; SAMs; SERS; Surface modification; Thiols

Indexed keywords

DIRECT METHOD; FUNCTIONALIZED; LANGMUIR APPROACH; MIXED MONOLAYERS; MIXED SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; MODEL-BASED OPC; MODIFIER CONCENTRATION; MONOLAYER COVERAGE; POSITIVELY CHARGED; PROBE MOLECULES; SAMS; SERS; SILVER COLLOID; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THIOL MONOLAYER; THIOLS;

BINARY MIXTURES; COLLOIDS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOPARTICLES; PORPHYRINS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TREATMENT;

SILVER;

EID: 84864697509     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300629z     Document Type: Article

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