Temperature responsive plasmonic assembles of amphiphilic nanoparticles at oil-water interfaces.

• Main Author: Chan, Kevin Jin Quan.
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Nanostructured materials; DRNTU::Engineering::Nanotechnology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45674
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Gold nanoparticle (AuNP) has been widely used in the biotechnology field due to its bio-inert characteristic and other unique physical qualities such as optical and electrical properties. Here, a new class of AuNP with multi-polymer brush coating, which can spontaneously assemble and disassemble und...