Tunable Electromagnetic Coupling in Plasmonic Nanostructures Mediated by Thermoresponsive Polymer Brushes

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• 作者：Mai Nguyen ; Andrei Kanaev ; Xiaonan Sun ; Emmanuelle Lacaze ; St茅phanie Lau-Truong ; Aazdine Lamouri ; Jean Aubard ; Nordin Felidj ; Claire Mangeney
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 24, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：31
• 期：46
• 页码：12830-12837
• 全文大小：500K
• ISSN：1520-5827

文摘

A smart and highly SERS-active plasmonic platform was designed by coupling regular arrays of nanotriangles to colloidal gold nanorods via a thermoresponsive polymer spacer (poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), PNIPAM). The substrates were prepared by combining a top-down and a bottom-up approach based on nanosphere lithography, surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization, and colloidal assembly. This multistep strategy provided regular hexagonal arrays of nanotriangles functionalized by polymer brushes and colloidal gold nanorods, confined exclusively on the nanotriangle surface. Interestingly, one could finely tune the gold nanorod impregnation on the polymer-coated nanostructures by adjusting the polymer layer thickness, leading to highly coupled plasmonic systems for intense SERS signal. Moreover, the thermoresponsive properties of the PNIPAM brushes could be wisely handled in order to monitor the SERS activity of the nanostructures coupled via this polymer spacer. The coupled hybrid plasmonic nanostructures designed in this work are therefore very promising smart platforms for the sensitive detection of analytes by SERS.