In situ growth of hollow gold-silver nanoshells within porous silica offers tunable plasmonic extinctions and enhanced colloidal stability

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 19943-19950

  Li, Chien Hung ^a   Jamison, Andrew C ^a   Rittikulsittichai, Supparesk ^a   Lee, Tai Chou ^b   Lee, T Randall ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bimetallic; Gold Silver; Hollow nanoshells; Silica coated; Tunable plasmon

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOSHELLS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICA; SOLS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

BIMETALLIC; COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; COLLOIDAL STABILITY; COMPOSITE NANOPARTICLES; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HOLLOW NANOSHELLS; SILICA COATED; SYNTHETIC METHODOLOGY;

GOLD COATINGS;

COLLOID; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOSHELL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER;

CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GOLD; HUMANS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NANOSHELLS; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILVER; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84914696724     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am505424w     Document Type: Article

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