Gelation of plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals by polymer-induced depletion attractions
Abstract
Significance Self-supported gelation of optically active nanocrystals offers a modular pathway to harness optoelectronic functionality in multiscale materials by directly controlling volume fraction, bonding, and structure during assembly. We combine depletion attractions that emerge from the incorporation of small polymer chains and electrostatic repulsions to induce the gelation of isotropic metal oxide nanocrystals. We develop a theoretical model to assess our experimental fluid-to-gel-phase progression observations. By preventing nanocrystal fusion during network assembly, we achieve gels with a strong near-infrared absorption, reminiscent of the inherent near-infrared localized surface plasmon resonance of the nanocrystal building blocks.
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712,
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712,, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720,
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712,, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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- Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Journal Volume: 115 Journal Issue: 36; Journal ID: ISSN 0027-8424
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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- United States
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Saez Cabezas, Camila A., Ong, Gary K., Jadrich, Ryan B., Lindquist, Beth A., Agrawal, Ankit, Truskett, Thomas M., and Milliron, Delia J. Gelation of plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals by polymer-induced depletion attractions. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1073/pnas.1806927115.
Saez Cabezas, Camila A., Ong, Gary K., Jadrich, Ryan B., Lindquist, Beth A., Agrawal, Ankit, Truskett, Thomas M., & Milliron, Delia J. Gelation of plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals by polymer-induced depletion attractions. United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806927115
Saez Cabezas, Camila A., Ong, Gary K., Jadrich, Ryan B., Lindquist, Beth A., Agrawal, Ankit, Truskett, Thomas M., and Milliron, Delia J. Mon .
"Gelation of plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals by polymer-induced depletion attractions". United States. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806927115.
@article{osti_1465254,
title = {Gelation of plasmonic metal oxide nanocrystals by polymer-induced depletion attractions},
author = {Saez Cabezas, Camila A. and Ong, Gary K. and Jadrich, Ryan B. and Lindquist, Beth A. and Agrawal, Ankit and Truskett, Thomas M. and Milliron, Delia J.},
abstractNote = {Significance Self-supported gelation of optically active nanocrystals offers a modular pathway to harness optoelectronic functionality in multiscale materials by directly controlling volume fraction, bonding, and structure during assembly. We combine depletion attractions that emerge from the incorporation of small polymer chains and electrostatic repulsions to induce the gelation of isotropic metal oxide nanocrystals. We develop a theoretical model to assess our experimental fluid-to-gel-phase progression observations. By preventing nanocrystal fusion during network assembly, we achieve gels with a strong near-infrared absorption, reminiscent of the inherent near-infrared localized surface plasmon resonance of the nanocrystal building blocks.},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1806927115},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America},
number = 36,
volume = 115,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
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