Preparation of nanocomposite plasmonic films made from cellulose nanocrystals or mesoporous silica decorated with unidirectionally aligned gold nanorods

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3021-3033

  Campbell, Michael G ^a   Liu, Qingkun ^a   Sanders, Aric ^b   Evans, Julian S ^a   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellulose nanocrystals; Gold nanorods; Liquid crystal; Mesoporous silica; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CELLULOSE FILMS; FILM PREPARATION; GOLD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANORODS; SILICA;

ANISOTROPIC METAL NANOPARTICLES; CELLULOSE NANO-CRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; GOLD NANOROD; MESOPOROUS SILICA; NANOPOROUS SILICA FILMS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS; PLASMONICS;

PLASMONS;

ANISOTROPY; CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CELLULOSE FILM; GOLD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SILICA;

EID: 84899129901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7043021     Document Type: Article

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