TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wagner, Tom
A1  - Lazar, Jaroslav
A1  - Schnakenberg, Uwe
A1  - Böker, Alexander
T1  - In situ Electrothemical Impedance Spectroscopy of Electrostatically Driven Selective Gold Nanoparticle Adsorption on Block Copolymer Lamellae
JF  - Trials
N2  - Electrostatic attraction between charged nano particles and oppositely charged nanopatterned polymeric films enables tailored structuring of functional nanoscopic surfaces. The bottom-up fabrication of organic/inorganic composites for example bears promising potential toward cheap fabrication of catalysts, optical sensors, and the manufacture of miniaturized electric circuitry. However, only little is known about the time-dependent adsorption behavior and the electronic or ionic charge transfer in the film bulk and at interfaces during nanoparticle assembly via electrostatic interactions. In situ electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in combination with a microfluidic system for fast and reproducible liquid delivery was thus applied to monitor the selective deposition of negatively charged gold nanoparticles on top of positively charged poly(2-vinylpyridinium) (qP2VP) domains of phase separated lamellar poly(styrene)-block-poly(2-vinylpyridinium) (PS-b-qP2VP) diblock copolymer thin films. The acquired impedance data delivered information with respect to interfacial charge alteration, ionic diffusion, and the charge dependent nanoparticle adsorption kinetics, considering this yet unexplored system. We demonstrate that the selective adsorption of negatively charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on positively charged qP2VP domains of lamellar PS-b-qP2VP thin films can indeed be tracked by EIS. Moreover, we show that the nanoparticle adsorption kinetics and the nanoparticle packing density are functions of the charge density in the qP2VP domains.
KW  - impedance spectroscopy
KW  - block copolymers
KW  - nanoparticles
KW  - electrostatics
KW  - adsorption kinetics
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6b07708
SN  - 1944-8244
VL  - 8
SP  - 27282
EP  - 27290
PB  - American Chemical Society
CY  - Washington
ER  -