Abstract
Striped, bimetallic Au-Pt-Au rod-shaped colloidal particles were fabricated. The different chemical reactivities of Pt and Au towards thiols and isocyanides were found to influence spatially-selective chemical modification within individual nanoparticles. The preparation and chemical manipulation of anisotropic colloidal building blocks represent a first step towards anisotropic mesoscale assembly and other materials chemistry applications. It is possible to make segmented multi-metal rods of controllable length by electroplating in a porous template membrane. It is also possible to control the surface chemistry of different metals within a single colloidal particle, after it has been released from the membrane, by means of orthogonal self-assembly.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1021-1025 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Advanced Materials |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1999 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Materials Science
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering