Label-Free in Situ Optical Monitoring of the Adsorption of Oppositely Charged Metal Nanoparticles
| Autor: | Bartlomiej Kowalczyk, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Zoltán Rácz, István Lagzi, Beatrix Peter, Sándor Kurunczi, Robert Horvath, Daniel Patko |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
Surface Properties Spectrum Analysis Kinetics Analytical chemistry Metal Nanoparticles Nanoparticle Surfaces and Interfaces Substrate (electronics) Condensed Matter Physics Charged particle Adsorption Chemical engineering Colloidal gold Electrochemistry General Materials Science Gold Particle Size Layer (electronics) Spectroscopy Deposition (law) |
| Zdroj: | Langmuir. 30:13478-13482 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 0743-7463 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/la5029405 |
| Popis: | The mechanism of alternating deposition of oppositely charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) was investigated by optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy (OWLS). OWLS allows monitoring of the kinetics of layer-by-layer (LbL) adsorption of positively and negatively charged nanoparticles in real time without using any labels so that the dynamics of layer formation can be revealed. Positively charged NPs that are already deposited on a negatively charged glass substrate strongly facilitate the adsorption of the negatively charged particles. The morphology of the adsorbed layer was also investigated with atomic force microscopy (AFM). AFM revealed that the interaction between oppositely charged particles results in the formation of NP clusters with sizes varying between 100 and 6000 NPs. The cluster size distribution is found to be an exponentially decaying function, and we propose a simple theory to explain this finding. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|