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Trapping of gold nanoparticles within arrays of topological defects: evolution of the LSPR anisotropy

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We demonstrate how the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) of gold nanoparticles is affected by their trapping within topological defect cores. Using aligned arrays of smectic edge dislocations, we evidence a reversal of the LSPR anisotropy, when the nanoparticle concentration increases. We combine UV–visible spectroscopy with simulations to show that this reversal is related to a transformation of the nanoparticle organization. When the concentration increases, the organization varies from nanoparticle chains parallel to the dislocations to anisotropic nanoparticle ribbons, larger in the direction perpendicular to the dislocations, moreover denser perpendicular to the dislocation than parallel to the dislocations. This transformation may be associated with the localized presence of dense arrays of aligned dislocations, inducing a compression between the NPs, but only in the direction perpendicular to the dislocations.

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  1. CNRS UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Emmanuelle Lacaze, Yves Borensztein & Delphine Coursault

  2. Sorbonne universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7588, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP), 4 place Jussieu, 75005, Paris, France

    Emmanuelle Lacaze, Yves Borensztein & Delphine Coursault

  3. Centre d’Energétique et de Thermique de Lyon (CETHIL), INSA de Lyon-CNRS-UCBL-INSA de Lyon, 9, rue de la physique, 69 621, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Olivier Merchiers

  4. The James Franck Institute, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    Delphine Coursault

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This contribution is the written, peer-reviewed version of a paper presented at one of the two conferences “From Life to Life: Through New Materials and Plasmonics”, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome on June 23, 2014, and at “NanoPlasm 2014: New Frontiers in Plasmonics and NanoOptics”, Cetraro (CS) on June 16–20, 2014.

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Lacaze, E., Merchiers, O., Borensztein, Y. et al. Trapping of gold nanoparticles within arrays of topological defects: evolution of the LSPR anisotropy. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 26 (Suppl 2), 183–191 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-015-0438-x

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