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Room temperature self-assembly of mixed nanoparticles into photonic structures

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  • Masood Naqshbandi

    (Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL), School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney
    School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney)

  • John Canning

    (Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL), School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney
    School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney)

  • Brant C. Gibson

    (School of Physics, The University of Melbourne)

  • Melissa M. Nash

    (Interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL), School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney
    School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney)

  • Maxwell J. Crossley

    (School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney)

Abstract

Manufacturing complex composites and structures using incompatible materials is central to next-generation technologies. In photonics, silica offers passivity, low loss and robustness, making it the ideal material platform for optical transport. However, these properties partly stem from the high-temperature processing conditions necessary for silica waveguide fabrication, restricting the functionalisation of waveguides to robust inorganic dopants. This means for many sensor and active device applications, large numbers of materials are excluded. These include many organic and carbon systems such as dyes and diamond. Here we propose using intermolecular forces to bind nanoparticles together at room temperature and demonstrate the room-temperature self-assembly of long microwires (length ~7 cm, width ~10 μm) with and without rhodamine B. Further we report on mixed self-assembly of silica and single-photon-emitting nitrogen-vacancy-containing diamond nanoparticles, opening up a new direction in material science.

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  • Masood Naqshbandi & John Canning & Brant C. Gibson & Melissa M. Nash & Maxwell J. Crossley, 2012. "Room temperature self-assembly of mixed nanoparticles into photonic structures," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 3(1), pages 1-7, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:3:y:2012:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms2182
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2182
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