title: Self-assembled dynamics of silver nanoparticles and self-assembled dynamics of 1,4-benzenedithiol adsorbed on silver nanoparticles: Surface-enhanced Raman scattering study.
abstract: Self-assembled dynamics of silver nanoparticles and self-assembled dynamics of 1,4-benzenedithiol (1,4-BDT) adsorbed on silver nanoparticles were investigated experimentally with surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and theoretically with density functional theory (DFT) and finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The absorption spectroscopy of 1,4-BDT in silver sol at different time intervals was measured, which give the indirect evidence of self-assembled dynamics of silver nanoparticles and self-assembled dynamics of 1,4-benzenedithiol (1,4-BDT) adsorbed on silver nanoparticles. To obtain the direct evidence of self-assembled dynamics of silver nanoparticles and self-assembled dynamics of 1,4-benzenedithiol (1,4-BDT) adsorbed on silver nanoparticles, the SERS of 1,4-BDT were measured experimentally and investigated theoretically. The appearances of S-S stretching band (revealing the formation of multilayers of 1,4-BDT), and strongly enhanced S-C stretching, C-C ring stretching vibrational modes clearly show self-assembled dynamics of 1,4-BDT.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China. mtsun@aphy.iphy.ac.cn
authors.forename: Mengtao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Lixin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Maodu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015394:Molecular Structure; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: C516314:1,4-benzenedithiol; D013438:Sulfhydryl Compounds; D012834:Silver