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Nanoscale control of molecular self-assembly induced by plasmonic hot-electron dynamics (1709.01488v1)

Published 5 Sep 2017 in cond-mat.mes-hall

Abstract: Self-assembly processes allow us to design and create complex nanostructures using molecules as building blocks and surfaces as scaffolds. This autonomous driven construction is possible due to a complex thermodynamic balance of molecule-surface interactions. As such, nanoscale guidance and control over this process is hard to achieve. Here we use the highly localized light-to-chemical-energy conversion of plasmonic materials to spatially cleave Au-S bonds on pre-determined locations within a single nanoparticle, enabling unprecedented control over this archetypal system for molecular self-assembly. Our method offers nanoscale precision and high-throughput light-induced tailoring of the surface chemistry of individual and packed nano-sized metallic structures by simply varying wavelength and polarization of the incident light. Assisted by single-molecule super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, we image, quantify and shed light onto the plasmon-induced desorption mechanism. We show that plasmon-induced photo-desorption enables sub-diffraction multiplexing, selective positioning of nanomaterials and even sorting and purification of colloidal nanoparticles.

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