Controlling the composition of plasmonic nanoparticle arrays via galvanic displacement reactions on block copolymer nanotemplates

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Feb 14;47(6):1782-4. doi: 10.1039/c0cc04369a. Epub 2010 Dec 2.

Abstract

A versatile and facile route to control the composition of plasmonic nanoparticles (NP) aligned in a configuration of two dimensional nano-arrays is presented by applying galvanic displacement reactions on a pre-defined noble metal NP arrays which were prepared from diblock copolymer inverse micelles containing metal precursors.