Abstract
The fabrication of silver nanoparticles covered with polymers with a well-defined core-shell structure and the quantitative evaluation of the plasmonic enhancement effect on a photochemical reaction in the vicinity of these silver nanoparticles individually dispersed in a medium are described. The photocycloreversion reaction of a diarylethene polymer in the vicinity of silver nanoparticles was enhanced by 2-6 times relative to the reaction without the nanoparticles. The promotion of the photocycloreversion reaction is due to enhancement of the electromagnetic field near the surface of the silver core.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3616-3621 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | ChemPhysChem |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 16 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012/11/12 |
Keywords
- diarylethene
- nanoparticles
- photochromism
- plasmonic enhancement
- silver
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry