Helically Twisted Chiral Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles Coated with a Cholesterol Mesogen

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• 作者：Liliana Cseh ; Xiaobin Mang ; Xiangbing Zeng ; Feng Liu ; Georg H. Mehl ; Goran Ungar ; Giuliano Siligardi
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 14, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：137
• 期：40
• 页码：12736-12739
• 全文大小：336K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Gold nanoparticles have been prepared and surface-functionalized with a 1:1 molar mixture of a hexylthiol ligand and a chiral mesogenic ligand consisting of a cholesterylbenzoate attached via an undecylthiol spacer. Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction showed that upon annealing a columnar liquid crystal (LC) structure develops with the nanoparticles forming strings on a regular oblique 2d lattice. Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism is substantially enhanced upon the isotropic鈥揕C transition. In the proposed structural model, layers of Au columns rotate by a small angle relative to their neighbors, with the columns winding around a helical axis. The work demonstrates that it is possible to obtain chiral LC superstructures from nanoparticles coated with chiral mesogen without the addition of a separate LC or chiral dopants. The results provide direction in the development of plasmonic metamaterials interacting selectively with circularly polarized light.