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Air-Stable, Nanostructured Electronic and Plasmonic Materials from Solution-Processable, Silver Nanocrystal Building Blocks
- 저자
- Aaron T. Fafarman, 홍성훈, 오승주, Humeyra Caglayan, Xingchen Ye, Benjamin T. Diroll, Nader Engheta, Christopher B. Murray, Cherie R. Kagan
- 발행일
- 201403
- 출처
- ACS Nano, v.8 no.3, pp.2746-2754
- ISSN
- 1936-0851
- 출판사
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- 초록
- Herein we describe a room-temperature, chemical process to transform silver nanocrystal solids, deposited from colloidal solutions, into highly conductive, corrosion-resistant, optical and electronic materials with nanometer-scale architectures. After assembling the nanocrystal solids, we treated them with a set of simple, compact, organic and inorganic reagents: ammonium thiocyanate, ammonium chloride, potassium hydrogen sulfide, and ethanedithiol. We find that each reagent induces unique changes in the structure and composition of the resulting solid, giving rise to films that vary from insulating to, in the case of thiocyanate, conducting with a remarkably low resistivity of 8.8 × 10-6 쨌cm, only 6 times that of bulk silver. We show that thiocyanate mediates the spontaneous sintering of nanocrystals into structures with a roughness of less than 1/10th of the wavelength of visible light. We demonstrate that these solution-processed, low-resistivity, optically smooth films can be patterned, using imprint lithography, into conductive electrodes and plasmonic mesostructures with programmable resonances. We observe that thiocyanate-treated solids exhibit significantly retarded atmospheric corrosion, a feature that dramatically increases the feasibility of employing silver for electrical and plasmonic applications. © 2014 American Chemical Society.
- KSP 제안 키워드
- Ammonium chloride, Ammonium thiocyanate, Building block, Chemical Process, Colloidal solutions, Corrosion-resistant, Nanocrystal solids, Nanometer-scale, Organic-inorganic, Plasmonic materials, Room-temperature