122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Oral Presentation
Area Oral Presentation of Young Analytical Chemists I
Room No. Room 321
Time THU 10:35-:
Code ANAL1.O-17
Subject Refractive Index Sensitivity of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Inflection Points in Single Gold Nanoparticles with Different Shapes
Authors Hui Bin Jeon, Ji Won Ha*
Department of Chemistry, University of Ulsan, Korea
Abstract Plasmonic gold nanoparticles exhibit unique size- and shape-dependent optical properties, which is caused by the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) collective oscillation of conduction electrons in gold with the incident light. In this study, we investigated the medium refractive index (RI)-dependent optical properties and LSPR sensitivity of single gold nanocubes (AuNCs) and gold nanospheres (AuNSs) of similar size (50 nm) under dark-field (DF) microscopy at the single particle level. We found that AuNCs with vertices have higher sensitivity to the medium RI than spherical AuNSs. Furthermore, the LSPR inflection point (IF) at the longer wavelength showed higher RI sensitivity in single particle scattering spectra. Therefore, we provide a deeper insight into the shape-dependent optical properties and RI sensitivity of LSPR IFs at single particle level, which can be beneficial and helpful for their uses in the development of sensitive biosensors.
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