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Watching Single Nanoparticles Grow in Real Time through Supercontinuum Spectroscopy
Author(s) -
Herrmann Lars O.,
Baumberg Jeremy J.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201300958
Subject(s) - supercontinuum , spectroscopy , materials science , nanoparticle , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , optoelectronics , physics , engineering , wavelength , quantum mechanics , photonic crystal fiber
A fast dark‐field scattering technique capturing full broadband spectra with millisecond time‐resolution enables us to monitor the growth or assembly of single nano‐objects in situ and in real time. Applying this technique to study the growth of single gold nanorods, together with scanning electron microscopy and finite‐difference time‐domain simulations, reveals precise quantitative information about gold nanorod growth kinetics.