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Title: Electric Switching of Fluorescence Decay in Gold–Silica–Dye Nematic Nanocolloids Mediated by Surface Plasmons

Abstract

Tunable composite materials with interesting physical behavior can be designed through integrating unique optical properties of solid nanostructures with facile responses of soft matter to weak external stimuli, but this approach remains challenged by their poorly controlled coassembly at the mesoscale. Using scalable wet chemical synthesis procedures, we fabricated anisotropic gold–silica-dye colloidal nanostructures and then organized them into the device-scale (demonstrated for square-inch cells) electrically tunable composites by simultaneously invoking molecular and colloidal self-assembly. We show that the ensuing ordered colloidal dispersions of shape-anisotropic nanostructures exhibit tunable fluorescence decay rates and intensity. Here in this paper, we characterize how these properties depend on low-voltage fields and polarization of both the excitation and emission light, demonstrating a great potential for the practical realization of an interesting breed of nanostructured composite materials.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Soft Materials Research Center
  2. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Soft Materials Research Center; National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Inst.
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division
OSTI Identifier:
1595097
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010305
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Nano
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; plasmonic nanostructures; fluorescence lifetime; switching; self-assembly

Citation Formats

Jiang, Li, Mundoor, Haridas, Liu, Qingkun, and Smalyukh, Ivan I. Electric Switching of Fluorescence Decay in Gold–Silica–Dye Nematic Nanocolloids Mediated by Surface Plasmons. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b03216.
Jiang, Li, Mundoor, Haridas, Liu, Qingkun, & Smalyukh, Ivan I. Electric Switching of Fluorescence Decay in Gold–Silica–Dye Nematic Nanocolloids Mediated by Surface Plasmons. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b03216
Jiang, Li, Mundoor, Haridas, Liu, Qingkun, and Smalyukh, Ivan I. Fri . "Electric Switching of Fluorescence Decay in Gold–Silica–Dye Nematic Nanocolloids Mediated by Surface Plasmons". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.6b03216. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1595097.
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title = {Electric Switching of Fluorescence Decay in Gold–Silica–Dye Nematic Nanocolloids Mediated by Surface Plasmons},
author = {Jiang, Li and Mundoor, Haridas and Liu, Qingkun and Smalyukh, Ivan I.},
abstractNote = {Tunable composite materials with interesting physical behavior can be designed through integrating unique optical properties of solid nanostructures with facile responses of soft matter to weak external stimuli, but this approach remains challenged by their poorly controlled coassembly at the mesoscale. Using scalable wet chemical synthesis procedures, we fabricated anisotropic gold–silica-dye colloidal nanostructures and then organized them into the device-scale (demonstrated for square-inch cells) electrically tunable composites by simultaneously invoking molecular and colloidal self-assembly. We show that the ensuing ordered colloidal dispersions of shape-anisotropic nanostructures exhibit tunable fluorescence decay rates and intensity. Here in this paper, we characterize how these properties depend on low-voltage fields and polarization of both the excitation and emission light, demonstrating a great potential for the practical realization of an interesting breed of nanostructured composite materials.},
doi = {10.1021/acsnano.6b03216},
journal = {ACS Nano},
number = 7,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Fri Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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