Highly Tunable Hollow Gold Nanospheres: Gaining Size Control and Uniform Galvanic Exchange of Sacrificial Cobalt Boride Scaffolds

Lindley, Sarah A.; Cooper, Jason K.; Rojas-Andrade, Mauricio D.; Fung, Victoria; Leahy, Conor J.; Chen, Shaowei; Zhang, Jin Z.

doi:10.1021/acsami.8b00726

Title: Highly Tunable Hollow Gold Nanospheres: Gaining Size Control and Uniform Galvanic Exchange of Sacrificial Cobalt Boride Scaffolds

Journal Article · Fri Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b00726· OSTI ID:1477284

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Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States). Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Chemical Sciences Division, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis

In principle, the diameter and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) frequency of hollow metal nanostructures can be independently adjusted, allowing the formation of targeted photoactivated structures of specific size and optical functionality. Although tunable SPRs have been reported for various systems, the shift in SPR is usually concomitant with a change in particle size. As such, more advanced tunability, including constant diameter with varying SPR or constant SPR with varying diameter, has not been properly achieved experimentally. In this paper, we demonstrate this advanced tunability with hollow gold nanospheres (HGNs). HGNs were synthesized through galvanic exchange using cobalt-based nanoparticles (NPs) as sacrificial scaffolds. Co₂B NP scaffolds were prepared by sodium borohydride nucleation of aqueous cobalt chloride and characterized using UV-vis, dynamic light scattering, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Careful control over the size of the Co₂B scaffold and its galvanic conversion is essential to realize fine control of the resultant HGN diameter and shell thickness. In pursuit of size control, we introduce B(OH)₄^- (the final product of NaBH₄ hydrolysis) as a growth agent to obtain hydrodynamic diameters ranging from ~17-85 nm with relative standard deviation <3%. The highly monodisperse Co₂B NPs were then used as scaffolds for the formation of HGNs. In controlling HGN shell thickness and uniformity, environmental oxygen was shown to affect both the structural and optical properties of the resultant gold shells. With careful control of these key factors, we demonstrate an HGN synthesis that enables independent variation of diameter and shell thickness, and thereby SPR, with unprecedented uniformity. Finally, the new synthesis method creates a truly tunable plasmonic nanostructure platform highly desirable for a wide range of applications, including sensing, catalysis, and photothermal therapy.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22), Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; SC0004993

OSTI ID:: 1477284

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 10, Issue 15; ISSN 1944-8244

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Country of Publication:: United States

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