Abstract
We have fabricated gold nanoparticle (AuNP) arrays on indium-tin oxide (ITO) substrates in a nearly one-dimensional fashion. AuNPs were site-selectively immobilized on ITO of which the surface had been patterned by a nanolithography process based on scanning probe microscopy. The fabricated nanoscale lines covered with aminosilane self-assembled monolayer served as chemisorption sites for citrate-stabilized AuNPs of 20 nm in diameter, accordingly, AuNP nanolines with a thickness of single nanoparticle diameter were spontaneously assembled on the lines. In this 1D array, the AuNPs were almost separated from each other due to the electrostatic repulsion between their negatively charged surface layers. Furthermore, a reorganization process of the immobilized AuNP arrays has been successfully demonstrated by replacing each AuNP's surface layer from citric acid to dodecanethiol. By this process, the AuNPs lost their electrostatic repulsion and became hydrophobic so as to be attracted to each other through hydrophobic interaction, resulting in reorganization of the AuNP array. By repeating the deposition and reorganization cycle, AuNPs were more densely packed. The optical absorption peak of the arrays due to their plasmonic resonance was found to shift from 526 to 590 nm in wavelength with repeating cycles, indicating that the resonance manner was changed from the single nanoparticle mode to the multiple particle mode with interparticle coupling.
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