Room temperature self-assembly of mixed nanoparticles into photonic structures

Naqshbandi, M; Canning, J; Gibson, BC; Nash, MM; Crossley, MJ

Room temperature self-assembly of mixed nanoparticles into photonic structures

Naqshbandi, M Canning, J

Gibson, BC Nash, MM Crossley, MJ

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Citation:: Nature Communications, 2012, 3
Issue Date:: 2012-12-14

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dc.contributor.author	Naqshbandi, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Canning, J https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8281-7783	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Gibson, BC	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Nash, MM	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Crossley, MJ	en_US
dc.date.available	2012-10-01	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-12-14	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Nature Communications, 2012, 3	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/115273
dc.description.abstract	Manufacturing complex composites and structures using incompatible materials is central to next-generation technologies. In photonics, silica offers passivity, low loss and robustness, making it the ideal material platform for optical transport. However, these properties partly stem from the high-temperature processing conditions necessary for silica waveguide fabrication, restricting the functionalisation of waveguides to robust inorganic dopants. This means for many sensor and active device applications, large numbers of materials are excluded. These include many organic and carbon systems such as dyes and diamond. Here we propose using intermolecular forces to bind nanoparticles together at room temperature and demonstrate the room-temperature self-assembly of long microwires (length ∼7 cm, width ∼10 μm) with and without rhodamine B. Further we report on mixed self-assembly of silica and single-photon-emitting nitrogen-vacancy-containing diamond nanoparticles, opening up a new direction in material science. © 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Nature Communications	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1038/ncomms2182	en_US
dc.title	Room temperature self-assembly of mixed nanoparticles into photonic structures	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.for	0205 Optical Physics	en_US
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Abstract:

Manufacturing complex composites and structures using incompatible materials is central to next-generation technologies. In photonics, silica offers passivity, low loss and robustness, making it the ideal material platform for optical transport. However, these properties partly stem from the high-temperature processing conditions necessary for silica waveguide fabrication, restricting the functionalisation of waveguides to robust inorganic dopants. This means for many sensor and active device applications, large numbers of materials are excluded. These include many organic and carbon systems such as dyes and diamond. Here we propose using intermolecular forces to bind nanoparticles together at room temperature and demonstrate the room-temperature self-assembly of long microwires (length ∼7 cm, width ∼10 μm) with and without rhodamine B. Further we report on mixed self-assembly of silica and single-photon-emitting nitrogen-vacancy-containing diamond nanoparticles, opening up a new direction in material science. © 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.

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