Metallic-like stoichiometric copper sulfide nanocrystals: Phase- and shape-selective synthesis, near-infrared surface plasmon resonance properties, and their modeling

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 7352-7369

  Xie, Yi ^a   Carbone, Luigi ^b   Nobile, Concetta ^b   Grillo, Vincenzo ^c,d   D'Agostino, Stefania ^a,e   Della Sala, Fabio ^a,b   Giannini, Cinzia ^f   Altamura, Davide ^f   Oelsner, Christian ^g   Kryschi, Carola ^g   Cozzoli, P Davide ^b,h  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d IMEM CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

colloidal nanocrystals; copper sulfide; covellite; discrete dipole approximation; localized surface plasmon resonance; shape control; transient absorption spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COPPER SULFIDES; COVELLITE; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SHAPE CONTROL; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

COPPER; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; GEOMETRY; INFRARED DEVICES; PLASMONS; SULFIDE MINERALS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOCRYSTALS;

COPPER; COPPER SULFIDE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; SURFACTANT; COLLOID; CUPRIC SULFIDE;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CRYSTALLIZATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PROCEDURES;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COLLOIDS; COPPER; CRYSTALLIZATION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 84883256929     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403035s     Document Type: Article

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