Assembling single gold nanorods into large-scale highly aligned nanoarrays via vacuum-enhanced capillarity

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-5

  Wang, Jiaojiao ^a,b   Li, Min ^b   Tang, Bochong ^b   Xie, Peng ^b   Ma, Lei ^b   Hu, Zhongbo ^a   Zhao, Yuliang ^b   Wei, Zhongqing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Assembly; Atomic force microscopy; Capillary; Gold; Nanoarray; Nanorods

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ASSEMBLY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CAPILLARITY; GOLD; PLASMONS;

ALIGNED ARRAYS; CAPILLARY; GOLD NANOROD; GOLD NANORODS (AUNRS); HIGH ASPECT RATIO; NANOARRAYS; UNIDIRECTIONAL ORDERING; VACUUM ENHANCED;

NANORODS;

EID: 84919911155     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-556     Document Type: Article

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