Understanding blue shift of the longitudinal surface plasmon resonance during growth of gold nanorods
Open Access
- 18 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nano Express
- Vol. 2 (1), 010009
- https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-959x/abd966
Abstract
We have investigated in detail the growth dynamics of gold nanorods with various aspect ratios in different surrounding environments. Surprisingly, a blue shift in the temporal evolution of colloidal gold nanorods in aqueous medium has been observed during the growth of nanorods by UV–visible absorption spectroscopy. The longitudinal surface plasmon resonance peak evolves as soon as the nanorods start to grow from spheres, and the system undergoes a blue shift in the absorption spectra. Although a red-shift is expected as a natural phenomenon during the growth process of all nano-systems, our blue shift observation is regarded as a consequence of competition between the parameters of growth solution and actual growth of nanorods. The growth of nanorods contributes to the red-shift which is hidden under the dominating contribution of the growth solution responsible for the observed massive blue shift.Keywords
Funding Information
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
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