Volume 51, Issue 35 pp. 8732-8735
Communication

Self-Assembly of Vertically Aligned Gold Nanorod Arrays on Patterned Substrates

Thibaut Thai

Thibaut Thai

Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800 (Australia) http://www.udobach.com

The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia)

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Dr. Yuanhui Zheng

Dr. Yuanhui Zheng

Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800 (Australia) http://www.udobach.com

The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia)

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Soon Hock Ng

Soon Hock Ng

Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800 (Australia) http://www.udobach.com

The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia)

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Dr. Stephen Mudie

Dr. Stephen Mudie

The Australian Synchroton, 800 Blackburn Road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia)

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Dr. Matteo Altissimo

Dr. Matteo Altissimo

The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia)

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Prof. Udo Bach

Corresponding Author

Prof. Udo Bach

Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800 (Australia) http://www.udobach.com

The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, 151 Wellington road, Clayton, Victoria 3168 (Australia)

CSIRO, Materials Science and Engineering, Clayton South, Victoria 3169 (Australia)

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First published: 29 July 2012
Citations: 104

We acknowledge financial support from the Australian Research Council through an Australian Research Fellowship (U.B.). Further financial support has been received from Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization through an OCE Science Leader position (U.B.). This work was performed in part at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, an initiative partly funded by the Commonwealth of Australia and the Victorian government.

Graphical Abstract

Nanorods standing at attention! A self-assembly technique based on convective and capillary forces was used for the direct fabrication of standing arrays of gold nanorods on lithographically predefined areas (see picture). The hexagonal close-packed structure of gold nanorods creates an ideal substrate for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

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