A fast, low-cost, bottom-up method for manufacturing bulk nanoplasmonic composites has been demonstrated - NanoParticle Direct Doping (NPDD)

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Friday, 01 March 2013 12:57

Vladimir Podlozny

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This method is based on the direct doping of dielectric matrices with plasmonic nanoparticles and enables the fabrication of volumetric three-dimensional materials through a non-chemical/direct process. The concept is based on utilising matrices with lower melting temperatures than those of the admixed nanoparticles. In this way, a variety of nanoparticles—of several different sizes, shapes and chemical compositions—can be introduced into the matrix, even when other doping agents such as rare-earth ions are present. This method may enable manufacturing materials on-demand for particular applications.

M. Gajc, B. H. Surma, A. Klos, K. Sadecka, K. Orlinski, A. E. Nikolaenko,
K. Zdunek, and D. A. Pawlak, Adv. Funct. Mat. (2013); adfm.201203116.

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