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Fabrication of Au/Titania Composite Nanodot Arrays from Au-Loaded Block Copolymer Micellar Films

✍ Scribed by Xue Li; Petra Göring; Eckhard Pippel; Martin Steinhart; Dong Ha Kim; Wolfgang Knoll


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
314 KB
Volume
26
Category
Article
ISSN
1022-1336

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Abstract

Summary: A simple route to an ordered array of metal/semiconductor oxide composite nanodots is presented. Micellar monolayer films of polystyrene‐block‐poly(2‐vinyl pyridine) (PS‐b‐P2VP) loaded with HAuCl~4~ in the P2VP nanodomains are used as templates. TiO~2~ is generated selectively within the polar P2VP domains of PS‐b‐P2VP/HAuCl~4~ films by chemical vapor deposition of TiCl~4~. Subsequent removal of the organic matrix by oxygen plasma or UV light leads to an array of Au/TiO~2~ composite nanoparticles on the substrate surface.

Schematic illustration of the process to fabricate an array of Au/titania composite nanodots.

magnified imageSchematic illustration of the process to fabricate an array of Au/titania composite nanodots.