The surface plasmon modes of self-assembled gold nanocrystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Barrow, Steven J ^a   Wei, Xingzhan ^a   Baldauf, Julia S ^a   Funston, Alison M ^b   Mulvaney, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD NANOPARTICLE; NANOCRYSTAL; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYER;

GOLD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLARIZATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYBRIDIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NANOFABRICATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84871749473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2289     Document Type: Article

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