Hybrid organic-gold nanostructures couple the functionality and synthetic flexibility of organics with the plasmonic properties of metallic nanoparticles. Gold nanorods (AuNRs), due to their inherent anisotropy, feature highly tunable optical properties and selective surface modification at the longitudinal or transverse axes. These attributes lead to fascinating self-assembly phenomena and can be exploited to design photothermal materials triggered by tunable wavelengths. In this research, we capped AuNRs with a variety of organic species, including 'clickable' azide moieties and hyperbranched polymers capable of hosting small molecules. With this diverse library, we investigated the partitioning of the modified AuNRs into novel vesicles. This research advances the development of plasmonic, stimuli-sensitive materials.

Surface-modified gold nanorods for self-assembly

245th National Meeting (2013)

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