Abstract
Assemblies of gold nanoparticles in an organic medium have been synthesized to study the plasmon–plasmon interactions amongst the gold nanoparticles. A pH-sensitive biomolecule, glutathione (GSH), has been introduced as a molecular linker of the ‘parent’ gold nanoparticles to obtain small nanoparticle aggregates. The optical spectra of gold nanoparticles shifted to the red region indicate dipole–dipole interactions in the gold particle assembly. The aggregates have been characterized by UV-Vis, FTIR, HRTEM and XRD techniques. A controlled method of aggregating gold nanoparticles in organic solvents has been achieved successfully under controlled pH conditions with different concentrations of the molecular linker, GSH. The pH dependent anchoring of GSH onto gold surfaces has been proved beyond doubt to bring about nanoparticle aggregation.
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