title: Colloidal synthesis of gold semishells.
abstract: This work describes a novel and scalable colloid chemistry strategy to fabricate gold semishells based on the selective growth of gold on Janus silica particles (500 nm in diameter) partly functionalized with amino groups. The modulation of the geometry of the Janus silica particles allows us to tune the final morphology of the gold semishells. This method also provides a route to fabricating hollow gold semishells through etching of the silica cores with hydrofluoric acid. The optical properties were characterized by visible near-infrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy and compared with simulations performed using the boundary element method (BEM). These revealed that the main optical features are located beyond the NIR region because of the large core size.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Física, Universidade de Vigo 36310 Vigo (Spain) E-mail: lmarzan@uvigo.es.
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Fernández
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Física, Universidade de Vigo 36310 Vigo (Spain) E-mail: lmarzan@uvigo.es.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pérez-Juste
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Física, Universidade de Vigo 36310 Vigo (Spain) E-mail: lmarzan@uvigo.es.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pastoriza-Santos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Física, Universidade de Vigo 36310 Vigo (Spain) E-mail: lmarzan@uvigo.es.
authors.forename: Luis M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Liz-Marzán
keywords: Janus particles; asymmetric syntheses; colloids; semishells