Electrically tunable plasmonic behavior of nanocube-polymer nanomaterials induced by a redox-active electrochromic polymer

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 6182-6192

  König, Tobias A F ^a   Ledin, Petr A ^a   Kerszulis, Justin ^b   Mahmoud, Mahmoud A ^b   El Sayed, Mostafa A ^b   Reynolds, John R ^a,b   Tsukruk, Vladimir V ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

bottom up assembly; electroactive materials; electrochromic polymer; localized surface plasmon resonances; tunable plasmonic behavior

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ELECTROCHROMISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ANISOTROPIC NANOSTRUCTURES; ELECTROACTIVE MATERIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHROMIC POLYMERS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATION; INDIUM TIN OXIDE ELECTRODES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TUNABLE PLASMONIC BEHAVIOR;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84903440947     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn501601e     Document Type: Article

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