Laser Fragmentation of Water-Suspended Gold Flakes via Spherical Submicroparticles to Fine Nanoparticles
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Abstract
By nanosecond, 532-nm laser irradiation typically at approximately 1 J/(cm2 pulse), water-suspended thin gold flakes, 0.1-0.2-microm thick but more than 10-microm across, were efficiently fragmented in a unique two-step mode, as evidenced by the in situ extinction spectra taken as a function of the laser irradiation time. The initial main photoproducts were spherical gold particles in the submicrometer regime. Their ensuing laser fragmentation in oxygen-free water environment generated stable, negatively charged, fine nanoparticles less than 10 nm in diameter, characterized by a considerably weak and blue-shifted plasmon band. The Mie theory can reproduce these distinct spectral features of the fine nanoparticles as well as the scattering-dominated extinction spectra of the submicroparticles. The submicroparticle to nanoparticle conversion seemed most likely to be a single-pulse event, not leaving any larger intermediate nanoparticles in the suspension. Oxygen, as an effective electron acceptor, strongly affected the stability of the negatively charged nanoparticles, promoting their quasi-reversible or irreversible agglomeration. From the estimated balance between the absorbed laser energy and the energies for the relevant particles to produce a high-temperature molten state, possible fragmentation mechanisms are discussed.
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