Exceptional Two-Photon Absorption in Alkynylruthenium-Gold Nanoparticle Hybrids
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2019-01-08
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Quintana, Cristóbal
Morshedi, Mahbod
Wang, Huan
Du, Jun
Cifuentes, Marie
Humphrey, Mark
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American Chemical Society
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Ruthenium alkynyl “star” complexes with tri(2-thienyl)-, tris(1,2,3-triazolyl)-, or triphenyl-benzene cores stabilize gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Cyclic voltammetry, transmission electron microscopy, molecular modeling, dynamic light scattering, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy studies are consistent with ca. 5 trithienyl- or triazolyl-benzene-cored star complexes decorating the exterior of each AuNP. The ca. 2.5 nm diameter (by transmission electron microscopy) trithienylbenzene-cored gold nanoparticle hybrids are significantly less absorbent than classical Brust nanoparticles stabilized by 1-dodecanethiol; with femtosecond pulsed radiation, they exhibit exceptionally strong saturable absorption and two-photon absorption across the visible range and into the near-infrared region (3 000 000 GM at 500 nm and 46 000 GM at 750 nm; 1 GM is equal to 10–50 cm4 s photon–1).
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Gold nanoparticles, inorganic materials, metal alkynyl complexes, nonlinear optics, organometallics
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Nano Letters
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