Plasmonic nano-necklace arrays via reconstruction of diblock copolymer inverse micelle nanotemplates

Abstract

We present a facile strategy for the generation of plasmonic nano-necklace arrays by introducing metallic precursors into strings of reconstructed inverse micelle nanotemplates which are induced by applying sequential selective solvent treatment and solvent vapour annealing for quasi-hexagonal arrays of poly(styrene-block-2-vinyl pyridine) inverse micelles. © 2011 The Royal Society of Chemistry.