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Surface‐Confined Nanoparticles as Substrates for Photopolymerizable Self‐Assembled Monolayers
Author(s) -
Menzel Henning,
Mowery Mark D.,
Cai Mei,
Evans Christine E.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-4095(199902)11:2<131::aid-adma131>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - diacetylene , materials science , monolayer , colloidal gold , nanotechnology , conjugated system , nanoparticle , polymer , substrate (aquarium) , fabrication , adsorption , polymerization , self assembly , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , composite material , medicine , oceanography , alternative medicine , chemistry , pathology , geology , engineering
Constraints on substrate size and shape are minimized in the fully solution‐based approach to surface fabrication reported here. It is shown that not only is it possible to prepare self‐assembled monolayers of a diacetylene compound on colloidal gold nanoparticles that are adsorbed onto supported organic films, but also subsequent polymerization yields highly conjugated poly(diacetylene). The ability to fabricate nanosized gold particles coated with conjugated polymers holds interesting possibilities for applications in nonlinear optics and electronics.