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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-2-26
pubmed:abstractText
Gold nanoparticles have been conformally coated with amorphous silica (using a sol-gel method) and then an organic polymer (via surface-grafted, atom transfer radical polymerization) to form spherical colloids with a core-double-shell structure. The thickness of silica and polymer shells could be conveniently controlled in the range of tens to several hundred nanometers by changing the concentration of the reagent and/or the reaction time. Selective removal of the silica layer (through etching in aqueous HF) led to the formation of hollow polymer beads containing movable gold cores. This new form of core-shell particles provides a unique system for measuring the feature size and transport property associated with hollow particles. In one demonstration, we showed that the thickness of a closed polymer shell could be obtained by mapping the electrons backscattered from the core and shell. In another demonstration, the plasmon resonance band of the gold cores was used as an optical probe to follow the diffusion kinetics of chemical reagents across the polymer shells.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0002-7863
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
125
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2384-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-1-17
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Synthesis and characterization of monodispersed core-shell spherical colloids with movable cores.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article