TY - JOUR
T1 - Actively tunable collective localized surface plasmons by responsive hydrogel membrane
AU - Gisbert Quilis, Nestor
AU - van Dongen, Marcel
AU - Venugopalan, Priyamvada
AU - Kotlarek, Daria
AU - Petri, Christian
AU - Cencerrado, A.
AU - Stanescu, Sorin
AU - Toca-Herrera, Jose Luis
AU - Jonas, Ulrich
AU - Möller, M.
AU - Mourran, Ahmed
AU - Dostalek, Jakub
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Collective (lattice) localized surface plasmons (cLSP) with actively tunable and extremely narrow spectral characteristics are reported. They are supported by periodic arrays of gold nanoparticles attached to a stimuli‐responsive hydrogel membrane, which can on demand swell and collapse to reversibly modulate arrays period and surrounding refractive index. In addition, it features a refractive index‐symmetrical geometry that promotes the generation of cLSPs and leads to strong suppression of radiative losses, narrowing the spectral width of the resonance, and increasing of the electromagnetic field intensity. Narrowing of the cLSP spectral band down to 13 nm and its reversible shifting by up to 151 nm is observed in the near infrared part of the spectrum by varying temperature and by solvent exchange for systems with a poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide)‐based hydrogel membrane that is allowed to reversibly swell and collapse in either one or in three dimensions. The reported structures with embedded periodic gold nanoparticle arrays are particularly attractive for biosensing applications as the open hydrogel structure can be efficiently post‐modified with functional moieties, such as specific ligands, and since biomolecules can rapidly diffuse through swollen polymer networks.
AB - Collective (lattice) localized surface plasmons (cLSP) with actively tunable and extremely narrow spectral characteristics are reported. They are supported by periodic arrays of gold nanoparticles attached to a stimuli‐responsive hydrogel membrane, which can on demand swell and collapse to reversibly modulate arrays period and surrounding refractive index. In addition, it features a refractive index‐symmetrical geometry that promotes the generation of cLSPs and leads to strong suppression of radiative losses, narrowing the spectral width of the resonance, and increasing of the electromagnetic field intensity. Narrowing of the cLSP spectral band down to 13 nm and its reversible shifting by up to 151 nm is observed in the near infrared part of the spectrum by varying temperature and by solvent exchange for systems with a poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide)‐based hydrogel membrane that is allowed to reversibly swell and collapse in either one or in three dimensions. The reported structures with embedded periodic gold nanoparticle arrays are particularly attractive for biosensing applications as the open hydrogel structure can be efficiently post‐modified with functional moieties, such as specific ligands, and since biomolecules can rapidly diffuse through swollen polymer networks.
U2 - 10.1002/adom.201900342
DO - 10.1002/adom.201900342
M3 - Article
SN - 2195-1071
VL - 7
JO - Advanced Optical Materials
JF - Advanced Optical Materials
IS - 15
ER -