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Thermal and optical characterization of SiO2–Au composites with absorption in the near-infrared

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Research in nanoscience has allowed the development of new nanomaterials and nanostructures. Nanoparticles, particularly those that combine two or more materials for improving their properties, are widely used in biomedicine, among these silica (SiO2) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have shown their potential. In this work functionalized SiO2 spheres, AuNPs, and silica-gold (SiO2–Au) complexes were synthesized. Thermal diffusivity and optical absorption coefficient, at selected wavelengths in the NIR region, were measured for the different colloidal solutions using novel photopyroelectric methodologies, introduced in this work. SiO2 spheres and AuNPs showed absorptions below 700 nm while the SiO2–Au complexes showed a broad absorption band in the NIR region as measured by conventional spectroscopy. The results show that even though there were no noticeable changes in thermal diffusivity by attaching the AuNPs on the surface of SiO2 spheres, optical properties are indeed enhanced, especially at 980 nm and 1064 nm in this case.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the Secretaría de Investigación de Posgrado (SIP) of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional for providing the resources for the completion of this project and Dr. Salvador Gallardo from the Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) for the facilities for the measurements of the samples by means of Raman Spectroscopy.

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This study was funded by Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), as part of its 2017–2021 graduate scholarship program.

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Conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing- original draft preparation, and visualization were performed by Cintia Proa Coronado. Resources, supervision, writing- reviewing and editing, and project administration were carried out by José Abraham Balderas López.

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Proa-Coronado, C., Balderas-López, J.A. Thermal and optical characterization of SiO2–Au composites with absorption in the near-infrared. MRS Advances 7, 305–309 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43580-022-00217-2

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