TY - JOUR A1 - Yeshchenko, Oleg A. A1 - Dmitruk, Igor M. A1 - Grytsenko, Kostyantyn A1 - Prokopets, Vadym M. A1 - Kotko, Andriy V. A1 - Schrader, Sigurd T1 - Influence of interparticle interaction on melting of gold nanoparticles in Au/polytetrafluoroethylene nanocomposites JF - Journal of Applied Physics N2 - The temperature dependence of the surface plasmon resonance energy and width in 5 nm spherical gold nanoparticles embedded in a polymer polytetrafluoroethylene matrix has been studied using absorption spectroscopy. The jumplike features have been observed in these dependences indicating the melting of gold nanoparticles at temperatures considerably lower than the bulk melting point. The interaction between gold nanoparticles sufficiently affects the melting of nanoparticles. The increase in the filling factor of the particles leads to a decrease in the melting temperature of gold nanoparticles. Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:526-opus4-9759 SN - 1089-7550 VL - 105 IS - 9 ER -