Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 5, Issue 17, Pages 8457-8466Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/am4018785
Keywords
nanocomposites; plasmonic heating; polymer films; nanoparticle interfaces; metamaterials
Funding
- NSF [CMMI-0909749, CBET-1134222, ECCS-1006927]
- University of Arkansas Foundation
- Walton Family Charitable Foundation
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Polymer thin films containing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are of growing interest in photovoltaics, biomedicine, optics, and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMs). This work has identified conditions to rapidly reduce aqueous hydrogen tetrachloroaurate (TCA) that is diffusing into one exposed interface of a partially cured polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) thin film into AuNPs. Nanospheroids, irregular gold (Au) networks, and micrometer-sized Au conglomerates were formed in a similar to 5 mu m layer at dissolved TCA contents of 0.005, 0.05, and 0.5 mass percent, respectively. Multiscale morphological, optical, and thermal properties of the resulting asymmetric AuNP-PDMS thin films were characterized. Reduction of TCA diffusing into the interface of partially cured PDMS film increased AuNP content, robustness, and scalability relative to laminar preparation of asymmetric AuNP-PDMS thin films. Optical attenuation and thermoplasmonic film temperature due to incident resonant irradiation increased in linear proportion to the order of magnitude increases in TCA content, from 0.005 to 0.05 to 0.5 mass percent. At the highest TCA content (0.05 mass percent), an asymmetric PDMS film 52-mu m-thick with a 7 mu m AuNP-containing layer was produced. It attenuated 85% of 18 mW of incident radiation and raised the local temperature to 54.5 degrees C above ambient. This represented an increase of 3 to 230-fold in photon-to-heat efficiency over previous thermoplasmonic AuNP-containing systems.
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