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Chemical Communications

PEG-nanotube liquid crystals as templates for construction of surfactant-free gold nanorods†

Naohiro Kameta ORCID logo *a  and  Hidenobu Shiroishi ORCID logo b  

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a Nanomaterials Research Institute, Department of Materials and Chemistry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8565, Japan
E-mail: n-kameta@aist.go.jp
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b National Institute of Technology, Tokyo College, Kunugida 1220-2, Hachiouji, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract

Lyotropic liquid crystals, in which nanotubes coated with polyethylene glycol were aligned side-by-side in aqueous dispersions, acted as templates for the construction of surfactant-free gold nanorods with controllable diameters, functionalizable surfaces, and tunable optical properties.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C8CC02013B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
13 Mar 2018
Accepted
15 Apr 2018
First published
17 Apr 2018

Chem. Commun., 2018,54, 4665-4668

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N. Kameta and H. Shiroishi, Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 4665 DOI: 10.1039/C8CC02013B

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