title: Regiospecific assembly of gold nanoparticles around the pores of diatoms: toward three-dimensional nanoarrays.
abstract: The templated growth of gold nanoparticles in 3D arrays within the nanopores of unicellular diatoms involves pretreament of the skeletons with poly(vinylpyridine) which has a unique dewetting property. This self-assembly provides a nanochemical analogue of lithography for engineering complex nanostructures. The process can be universally applied to the many types of diatom skeletons which vary in size and structure.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA-6009, Australia.
authors.forename: Jeremiah
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toster
authors.forename: K Swaminathan
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Iyer
authors.forename: Ruslan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Burtovyy
authors.forename: Stephen S O
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Burgess
authors.forename: Igor A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Luzinov
authors.forename: Colin L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Raston
mesh_terms: D017377:Diatoms / Q000737:chemistry*; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods; D011145:Polyvinyls / Q000737:chemistry; D011725:Pyridines / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D011145:Polyvinyls; D011725:Pyridines; D006046:Gold