A series of organic-inorganic composite films composed of close-packed, alkanethiol-capped gold nanoparticles and rigid, aromatic dithiol crosslinking molecules were assembled upon the air-water interface within a Langmuir ...

Previous studies in our lab demonstrated the fabrication of covalently cross-linked soft networks of hydrophobic gold nanoparticles with the aid of a Langmuir trough. These composite materials exhibited greater mechanical ...