题目：Watching Single Gold Nanorods Grow

作者：Zhongqing Wei,* Hua Qi, Min Li, Bochong Tang, Zhengzheng Zhang, Ruiling Han, Jiaojiao Wang, and Yuliang Zhao

*Prof. Z. Wei 
CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety
Institute of High Energy Physics
The Chinese Academy of Sciences
19B Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
Email: zwei@ihep.ac.cn

摘要：Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was employed to monitor the consecutive evolution process of single gold nanorods. The single crystal gold nanorods investigated were grown directly on surfaces to which gold seed particles were covalently linked. The growth kinetics for single nanorods was derived from the three-dimensional information recorded by AFM. A better understanding of the seed-mediated growth mechanism may ultimately lead to the direct growth of aligned nanorods on surfaces.

论文链接：http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.201102426/abstract