Fig. 3: Self-assembled chiral plasmonic nanomaterials made from mesogenic ligands-capped gold nanoparticles. | Light: Science & Applications

Fig. 3: Self-assembled chiral plasmonic nanomaterials made from mesogenic ligands-capped gold nanoparticles.

From: Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence

Fig. 3

a Schematic structure of mesogen-functionalized gold nanoparticle AuCholC6. b Schematic representation of the chiral plasmonic nanomaterials exhibiting chiral columnar liquid-crystalline phase. c TEM image of AuCholC6. d SAXS curve of annealed AuCholC6. e Electron density mapping of the columns based on the SAXS reflections. f GI-SAXS pattern of a slowly cooled AuCholC6 nanostructured film in the formed mesophase. g CD spectra of a AuCholC6 nanostructured film upon cooling from the isotropic-liquid-crystalline phase at 200 °C to 40 °C. h–i Side and top views of modeling AuCholC6 nanostructures based on molecular dynamics simulation. Reproduced with permission from ref. 167. Copyright 2015, American Chemical Society

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