Planar array of 1D gold nanoparticles on ridge-and-valley structured carbon.
For fabrication of a planar array of 1D chains of gold nanoparticles prepared by a chemical process, the faceted (110) planes of sodium chloride crystals were used as templates to produce nanoscale ridge-and-valley structured carbon layers by a vacuum process. When these carbon layers loaded on copper grids were dipped in toluene solution of 3.4 nm gold nanoparticles followed by natural dry, a planar array of 1D chains of gold nanoparticles were formed on carbon layers, where the nanoparticles were immobilized predominantly in valleys and partly on ridges of carbon layers.
Teranishi
Toshiharu
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School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan. tosiharu@jaist.ac.jp
Sugawara
Akira
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Shimizu
Takami
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Miyake
Mikio
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