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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 02:04Forming the Silver Working Electrode
- 03:14Electrodepositing Copper and Nickel
- 06:12Electropolymerizing the Core and Electrodepositing the Gold Shell
- 08:43Removing Sacrificial Material and Isolating the Gold Nanotubes
- 10:26Optical Characterization of Gold Nanotubes
- 11:42Results: Gold Nanotube Length Characterization
- 12:46Conclusion
Solution-suspendable gold nanotubes with controlled dimensions can be synthesized by electrochemical deposition in porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes using a hydrophobic polymer core. Gold nanotubes and nanotube arrays hold promise for applications in plasmonic biosensing, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, photo-thermal heating, ionic and molecular transport, microfluidics, catalysis and electrochemical sensing.
