{"title":"Silver emulsion films with isotropic mechanical properties and hydrophilic porous surface","authors":"V.V. Bocharov , V.S. Sulyaeva , M.M. Syrokvashin , A.N. Kolodin","doi":"10.1016/j.tsf.2025.140685","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Optically active films based on Ag nanoparticles stabilised by sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate (<strong>AOT</strong>) were prepared by the dip-coating method. It was experimentally found that variation of the substrate immersion number allowed one to control the surface properties of the prepared films. The values of the surface roughness, the pore depth, the contact angle, and the adhesion work vary within a wide range from 1.1 ± 0.5 to 20.9 ± 1.7 nm, 25±6 to 37±7 nm, 37±4 to 18±5°, and 2.5 ± 0.1 to 32±1 J∙m<sup>-2</sup>, respectively. A comprehensive study using X-ray energy dispersive analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and UV–Vis spectroscopy showed that the prepared films exhibited a complex chemical composition. The films are formed by the silver nanoparticles encapsulated in the AOT layer. The numerical concentration and the linear size of the encapsulated nanoparticles grow with an increase of the substrate immersion number. Due to the presence of hydrophilic properties as well as a stable plasmonic effect, the obtained films can be considered as a promising material for the development of surface plasmon resonance sensor devices with liquid contact.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23182,"journal":{"name":"Thin Solid Films","volume":"821 ","pages":"Article 140685"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Thin Solid Films","FirstCategoryId":"88","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040609025000859","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, COATINGS & FILMS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Optically active films based on Ag nanoparticles stabilised by sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate (AOT) were prepared by the dip-coating method. It was experimentally found that variation of the substrate immersion number allowed one to control the surface properties of the prepared films. The values of the surface roughness, the pore depth, the contact angle, and the adhesion work vary within a wide range from 1.1 ± 0.5 to 20.9 ± 1.7 nm, 25±6 to 37±7 nm, 37±4 to 18±5°, and 2.5 ± 0.1 to 32±1 J∙m-2, respectively. A comprehensive study using X-ray energy dispersive analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and UV–Vis spectroscopy showed that the prepared films exhibited a complex chemical composition. The films are formed by the silver nanoparticles encapsulated in the AOT layer. The numerical concentration and the linear size of the encapsulated nanoparticles grow with an increase of the substrate immersion number. Due to the presence of hydrophilic properties as well as a stable plasmonic effect, the obtained films can be considered as a promising material for the development of surface plasmon resonance sensor devices with liquid contact.
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Thin Solid Films is an international journal which serves scientists and engineers working in the fields of thin-film synthesis, characterization, and applications. The field of thin films, which can be defined as the confluence of materials science, surface science, and applied physics, has become an identifiable unified discipline of scientific endeavor.