Issue 9, 2011

Ultrathin free-standing close-packed gold nanoparticle films: Conductivity and Raman scattering enhancement

Abstract

A simple filtration technique was developed to prepare large scale free-standing close-packed gold nanoparticle ultrathin films using metal hydroxide nanostrands as both barrier layer and sacrificial layer. As thin as 70 nm, centimeter scale robust free-standing gold nanoparticle thin film was obtained. The thickness of the films could be easily tuned by the filtration volumes. The electronic conductivities of these films varied with the size of the gold nanoparticles, post-treatment temperature, and thickness, respectively. The conductivity of the film prepared from 20 nm gold nanoparticles is higher than that of the film prepared from 40 nm gold nanoparticle by filtering the same filtration volume of their solution, respectively. Their conductivities are comparable to that of the 220 nm thick ITO film. Furthermore, these films demonstrated an average surface Raman scattering enhancement up to 6.59 × 105 for Rhodamine 6 G molecules on the film prepared from 40 nm gold nanoparticles. Due to a lot of nano interspaces generated from the close-packed structures, two abnormal enhancements and relative stronger intensities of the asymmetrical vibrations at 1534 and 1594 cm−1 of R6G were observed, respectively. These robust free-standing gold nanoparticle films could be easily transferred onto various solid substrates and hold the potential application for electrodes and surface enhanced Raman detectors. This method is applicable for preparation of other nanoparticle free-standing thin films.

Graphical abstract: Ultrathin free-standing close-packed gold nanoparticle films: Conductivity and Raman scattering enhancement

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Jun 2011
Accepted
14 Jul 2011
First published
12 Aug 2011

Nanoscale, 2011,3, 3868-3875

Ultrathin free-standing close-packed gold nanoparticle films: Conductivity and Raman scattering enhancement

Q. Yu, H. Huang, X. Peng and Z. Ye, Nanoscale, 2011, 3, 3868 DOI: 10.1039/C1NR10578G

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