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Title: Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals

Abstract

Unprecedented, reversible, and dynamic control over an assembly of gold nanorods dispersed in liquid crystals (LC) is demonstrated. The LC director field is dynamically tuned at the nanoscale using microscale ring confinement through the interplay of elastic energy at different temperatures, thus fine-tuning its core replacement energy to reversibly sequester nanoscale inclusions at the microscale. As a result, this leads to shifts of 100 nm or more in the surface plasmon resonance peak, an order of magnitude greater than any previous work with AuNR composites.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2]
  1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1253687
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-678248
Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 28; Journal Issue: 14; Journal ID: ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Lee, Elaine, Xia, Yu, Ferrier, Jr., Robert C., Kim, Hye -Na, Gharbi, Mohamed A., Stebe, Kathleen J., Kamien, Randall D., Composto, Russell J., and Yang, Shu. Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/adma.201506084.
Lee, Elaine, Xia, Yu, Ferrier, Jr., Robert C., Kim, Hye -Na, Gharbi, Mohamed A., Stebe, Kathleen J., Kamien, Randall D., Composto, Russell J., & Yang, Shu. Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201506084
Lee, Elaine, Xia, Yu, Ferrier, Jr., Robert C., Kim, Hye -Na, Gharbi, Mohamed A., Stebe, Kathleen J., Kamien, Randall D., Composto, Russell J., and Yang, Shu. Mon . "Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201506084. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1253687.
@article{osti_1253687,
title = {Fine golden rings: Tunable surface plasmon resonance from assembled nanorods in topological defects of liquid crystals},
author = {Lee, Elaine and Xia, Yu and Ferrier, Jr., Robert C. and Kim, Hye -Na and Gharbi, Mohamed A. and Stebe, Kathleen J. and Kamien, Randall D. and Composto, Russell J. and Yang, Shu},
abstractNote = {Unprecedented, reversible, and dynamic control over an assembly of gold nanorods dispersed in liquid crystals (LC) is demonstrated. The LC director field is dynamically tuned at the nanoscale using microscale ring confinement through the interplay of elastic energy at different temperatures, thus fine-tuning its core replacement energy to reversibly sequester nanoscale inclusions at the microscale. As a result, this leads to shifts of 100 nm or more in the surface plasmon resonance peak, an order of magnitude greater than any previous work with AuNR composites.},
doi = {10.1002/adma.201506084},
journal = {Advanced Materials},
number = 14,
volume = 28,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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