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Vol. 5 No. 3 (2013)

Fabrication of Large-area 3-D Ordered Silver-coated Colloidal Crystals and Macroporous Silver Films Using Polystyrene Templates

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353749
Wen Zhu
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou City 225002, China
Yuanyuan Wu
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou City 225002, China
Chengyin Wang
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou City 225002, China
Ming Zhang
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou City 225002, China
Guanxiu Dong
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou City 213001, China

Corresponding Author: Ming Zhang

lxyzhangm@yzu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 5 No. 3 (2013), Article Number: 182-190

Abstract

The highly ordered silver-coated colloidal crystals arrays and macroporous silver films were derived through an electrostatics-induced adsorption effect using polystyrene (PS) as templates. Carboxyl-modified PS microspheres were prepared by emulsifier-free emulsion polymerization using methacrylic acid (MAA) as the functional monomer. PS microspheres were self-assembled into close packing colloidal crystals of facecentered cubic arrays to the substrate with vertical deposition method. These colloidal crystals were modified using dopamine (DA) to form poly-dopamine (PDA) during its oxidative polymerization. Through electrostatic interaction, the silver nanoparticles were deposited and adsorbed onto the surfaces of colloidal crystals templates by exposing [Ag(NH3)2]+ solution to infrared irradiation. Removal of the polymeric template by etching with methylbenzene solvent resulted in 3D ordered macroporous silver films. The structural and properties of the ordered silver-coated arrays and macroporous silver films were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-vis spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The results indicate that the prepared silver-coated arrays and macroporous silver films possess the features of ordered multilayer arrangement, uniformity and repeatability as well as an ideal SERS effect.

Keywords

Polystyrene colloidal crystal Template Dopamine Silver-coated array Ordered macroporous film
Zhu, Wen, Yuanyuan Wu, Chengyin Wang, Ming Zhang, and Guanxiu Dong. 2013. “Fabrication of Large-Area 3-D Ordered Silver-Coated Colloidal Crystals and Macroporous Silver Films Using Polystyrene Templates”. Nano-Micro Letters 5 (3):182-90. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353749.
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