Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles
Organizing nanoparticles into supercrystals comprising multiple structures remains challenging. Here, we achieve one assembly with dual structures for Ag polyhedral building blocks, comprising truncated cubes, cuboctahedra, truncated octahedra, and octahedra. We create two micro-environments in a so...
Saved in:
Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
2018
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88215 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45709 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |
id |
sg-ntu-dr.10356-88215 |
---|---|
record_format |
dspace |
spelling |
sg-ntu-dr.10356-882152023-02-28T19:34:29Z Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles Lee, Yih Hong Lay, Chee Leng Shi, Wenxiong Lee, Hiang Kwee Yang, Yijie Li, Shuzhou Ling, Xing Yi School of Materials Science & Engineering School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Supercrystals Polyhedral Nanoparticles DRNTU::Science::Chemistry Organizing nanoparticles into supercrystals comprising multiple structures remains challenging. Here, we achieve one assembly with dual structures for Ag polyhedral building blocks, comprising truncated cubes, cuboctahedra, truncated octahedra, and octahedra. We create two micro-environments in a solvent evaporation-driven assembly system: one at the drying front and one at the air/water interface. Dynamic solvent flow concentrates the polyhedra at the drying front, generating hard particle behaviors and leading to morphology-dependent densest-packed bulk supercrystals. In addition, monolayers of nanoparticles adsorb at the air/liquid interface to minimize the air/liquid interfacial energy. Subsequent solvent evaporation gives rise to various structurally diverse dual-structure supercrystals. The topmost monolayers feature distinct open crystal structures with significantly lower packing densities than their densest-packed supercrystals. We further highlight a 3.3-fold synergistic enhancement of surface-enhanced Raman scattering efficiency arising from these dual-structure supercrystals as compared to a uniform one. MOE (Min. of Education, S’pore) Published version 2018-08-29T02:47:31Z 2019-12-06T16:58:26Z 2018-08-29T02:47:31Z 2019-12-06T16:58:26Z 2018 Journal Article Lee, Y. H., Lay, C. L., Shi, W., Lee, H. K., Yang, Y., Li, S., & Ling, X. Y. (2018). Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles. Nature Communications, 9(1), 2769-. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05102-x https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88215 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45709 10.1038/s41467-018-05102-x en Nature Communications © 2018 The Author(s) (Nature Publishing Group). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 8 p. application/pdf |
institution |
Nanyang Technological University |
building |
NTU Library |
continent |
Asia |
country |
Singapore Singapore |
content_provider |
NTU Library |
collection |
DR-NTU |
language |
English |
topic |
Supercrystals Polyhedral Nanoparticles DRNTU::Science::Chemistry |
spellingShingle |
Supercrystals Polyhedral Nanoparticles DRNTU::Science::Chemistry Lee, Yih Hong Lay, Chee Leng Shi, Wenxiong Lee, Hiang Kwee Yang, Yijie Li, Shuzhou Ling, Xing Yi Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles |
description |
Organizing nanoparticles into supercrystals comprising multiple structures remains challenging. Here, we achieve one assembly with dual structures for Ag polyhedral building blocks, comprising truncated cubes, cuboctahedra, truncated octahedra, and octahedra. We create two micro-environments in a solvent evaporation-driven assembly system: one at the drying front and one at the air/water interface. Dynamic solvent flow concentrates the polyhedra at the drying front, generating hard particle behaviors and leading to morphology-dependent densest-packed bulk supercrystals. In addition, monolayers of nanoparticles adsorb at the air/liquid interface to minimize the air/liquid interfacial energy. Subsequent solvent evaporation gives rise to various structurally diverse dual-structure supercrystals. The topmost monolayers feature distinct open crystal structures with significantly lower packing densities than their densest-packed supercrystals. We further highlight a 3.3-fold synergistic enhancement of surface-enhanced Raman scattering efficiency arising from these dual-structure supercrystals as compared to a uniform one. |
author2 |
School of Materials Science & Engineering |
author_facet |
School of Materials Science & Engineering Lee, Yih Hong Lay, Chee Leng Shi, Wenxiong Lee, Hiang Kwee Yang, Yijie Li, Shuzhou Ling, Xing Yi |
format |
Article |
author |
Lee, Yih Hong Lay, Chee Leng Shi, Wenxiong Lee, Hiang Kwee Yang, Yijie Li, Shuzhou Ling, Xing Yi |
author_sort |
Lee, Yih Hong |
title |
Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles |
title_short |
Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles |
title_full |
Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles |
title_fullStr |
Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles |
title_full_unstemmed |
Creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles |
title_sort |
creating two self-assembly micro-environments to achieve supercrystals with dual structures using polyhedral nanoparticles |
publishDate |
2018 |
url |
https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88215 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45709 |
_version_ |
1759858186071834624 |