Nanocrystals plasma polymerization: From colloids to all-inorganic 1-D, 2-D and 3-D functional architectures

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Ludovico Cademartiri, lcademar@chem.utoronto.ca1, Arya Ghadimi1, Georg von Freymann2, André C. Arsenault1, Yasemin Akcakir1, Ulrich Kamp1, Jacopo Bertolotti3, Diederik S. Wiersma3, Vladimir Kitaev4, and Geoffrey A. Ozin, gozin@chem.utoronto.ca 1. (1) Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80, St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada, (2) DFG - Center for Functional Nanostructures, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3) LENS - INFM/MATIS, Florence, Italy, (4) Present adress: Chemistry Department, Wilfrid Lauirer University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5, Canada
We hereby report on nanocrystal plasma polymerization, a low-temperature methodology to convert colloidal nanocrystals into all-inorganic solid state architecture of arbitrary shape. The properties deriving from the nanometer-scale size of the nanocrystals are maintained and stabilized against chemical and physical processing. In many cases the resulting architectures are flexible and the methodology is compatible with plastic substrates. We will here highlight the most recent results which further prove the generality of this technique.
 

Nanoscience: Synthesis and Characterization
8:30 AM-12:30 PM, Monday, August 20, 2007 BCEC -- 209, Oral

Division of Inorganic Chemistry

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007