Longitudinal Plasma Resonance Shifts in Gold Nanoparticle Aggregates

Recent interest in colloidal gold focuses on understanding the tunability of the longitudinal and transverse plasma resonance. It was reported that the reduction of HAuCl4 by Na2S produces gold nanoparticles with an optical absorption in the near infrared. This absorption blue shifts during the course of the reaction. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) measurements on this system indicated that there was little sulfur present in the system. A small angle x-ray scattering (SAX) experiment was used to monitor the reaction while simultaneously the UV-VIS spectrum was measured. During the reaction the fractal dimension decreased from 4.154 ± 0.850 to 0.624 ± 0.146. The decrease in fractal dimension coincided with the blue shift in the longitudinal plasma resonance from the near IR to the visible. This suggests a change from reaction limited colloid aggregation (RLCA) to diffusion limited colloid aggregation (DLCA), caused the shift in the plasma resonance.

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