Highly extended filaments in aqueous gold nano-particle colloidals

  • Shuai Yuan
  • , Feng J. Liu
  • , Li R. Wang
  • , Jun Y. Nan
  • , Min Li
  • , Bo Q. He
  • , He P. Zeng*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A new regime of filamentation has been discovered in aqueous gold nanoparticle colloidals (AGNC). Different from filamentation in liquids, in this regime, by doping water with gold nanoparticles, there is no observable multiple small-scale filaments, but instead a spatially continuous plasma channel is formed. The length of the filament is more than ten times as compared with that in water. Filamentation in AGNC is characterized by a colorful light channel, with generated supercontinuum ranging from 400 nm to 650 nm which is scattered along a cyan-orange path.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5957
JournalScientific Reports
Volume8
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2018
Externally publishedYes

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