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Non-agglomerated gold-PMMA nanocomposites by in situ-stabilized laser ablation in liquid monomer for optical applications

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The main goal in the production of nanocomposites for optical applications is the uniform and non-agglomerated incorporation of nanoparticles into polymer matrices. Therefore, in this work gold nanoparticles have been generated by short-pulsed liquid phase laser ablation in methyl methacrylate (MMA) with or without dissolved poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) followed by polymerization. The polymeric materials were then used in injection molding to form model nanocomposites for further analysis. It has been observed that the steric in situ-stabilization of nanoparticles by dissolved PMMA inhibits particle aggregation in MMA and due to particle quenching results in smaller nanoparticles than that achieved by working in pure MMA. Similar but even more pronounced stability issues have been highlighted on injection molded optical nanocomposites, revealing that the in situ-stabilization of nanoparticles with PMMA not only prevent an agglomeration in the colloidal state but could also prevent changes in particles dispersion along the entire processing chain ending in final 3D polymer samples. Besides the optical study of the characteristic plasmon peak of gold nanoparticles and the nonlinear absorption behavior for femtosecond laser pulses, XRD analysis revealed the appearance of atomic gold in a centrosymmetric Fm3m cubic structure.

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The work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the project LapoNano (FKZ 13N12123) and partially by the VolkswagenStiftung within the project “Nanostrukturierte Polymere für Anwendungen in der Optik”. The authors thank M. Wiebcke from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the Leibniz University Hannover for performing the XRD measurements.

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    Andreas Schwenke, Hauke Dalüge, Roman Kiyan, C. Laszlo Sajti & Boris N. Chichkov

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Schwenke, A., Dalüge, H., Kiyan, R. et al. Non-agglomerated gold-PMMA nanocomposites by in situ-stabilized laser ablation in liquid monomer for optical applications. Appl. Phys. A 111, 451–457 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-013-7594-6

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