Synthesis of silver nanodisks using polystyrene mesospheres as templates

J Am Chem Soc. 2002 Dec 25;124(51):15182-3. doi: 10.1021/ja028336r.

Abstract

We report the synthesis of Ag nanodisk using polystyrene mesospheres as templates. TEM measurements show that the average disk thickness is 9.0 +/- 1.0 nm and the diameter is 36 +/- 8 nm. The particles exhibit an intense electronic spectrum that differs markedly from that for spheres (purple vs yellow solutions). We present electromagnetic theory calculations which exhibit a qualitative match with the observed spectrum, enabling us to assign several of the plasmon resonance features.