Journal
NANOSCALE
Volume 10, Issue 11, Pages 5065-5071Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7nr09443d
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- ARC discovery projects [DP140100052, DP170102208]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1332208]
- Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials (MCATM)
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Nanoparticles were called artificial atoms about two decades ago due to their ability to organize into regular lattices or supra crystals. Their self-assembly into free-standing, two-dimensional (2D) nanoparticle arrays enables the generation of 2D metamaterials for novel applications in sensing, nanophotonics and energy fields. However, their controlled fabrication is nontrivial due to the complex nanoscale forces among nanoparticle building blocks. Here, we report a new type of 2D plasmonic superlattice from high-index gold trisoctahedron (TOH) nanoparticles. TOH is an an isotropic polyhedron with 24 facets and 14 vertices. By using polymer ligands in conjunction with drying-mediated self-assembly, we obtained highly ordered 2D superlattices as quantified by synchrotron based grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS). The plasmonic properties were optimized by adjusting the ligand length and particle size. The excellent surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) performance enables us to demonstrate TOH superlattices as uniform SERS immunosubstrates with a detection limit down to 1 pg ml(-1) and a dynamic range from 1 pg ml(-1) to 100 ng ml(-1).
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