Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Superfast assembly and synthesis of gold nanostructures using nanosecond low-temperature compression via magnetic pulsed power

  • Binsong Li,
  • Kaifu Bian,
  • J. Matthew D. Lane,
  • K. Michael Salerno,
  • Gary S. Grest,
  • Tommy Ao,
  • Randy Hickman,
  • Jack Wise,
  • Zhongwu Wang,
  • Hongyou Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14778
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Gold nanostructures have shape-dependent properties, making synthetic control over their morphology critical. Here, the authors use dynamic compression to obtain a variety of gold nanoarchitectures, which are formed at very fast timescales by the controlled coalescence of spherical particle arrays.