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Copyright 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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final irradiation product. At the same time, these studies show the possibilitiesfor ‘‘machining’’ nanostructured materials using pulsed laser light.An interesting question is how long it takes to melt a gold nanorod. Toaddress this question, time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy was used tomonitor the disappearance of the longitudinal surface plasmon absorption[30]. As the longitudinal surface plasmon absorption is characteristic of therodlike shape, the rise time for the permanent bleaching of this bandcorresponds to the melting time of nanorods. This experiment was carriedout in a flow cell with a large sample volume in order to assure that the overallpercentage of nanorods destroyed <strong>by</strong> laser irradiation remained small enoughthat a new probe volume contained mainly unexposed nanorods [30] (theseprecautions allowed a continuous averaging of the transient absorption). Theresults of these measurements are shown in Fig. 12 for a rod sample with anFigure 12 Transient absorption dynamics of the rod-to-sphere shape transformationrecorded at 790 nm for the excitation at 400 nm. The rise time for the permanentbleaching of the longitudinal surface plasmon band (see inset) corresponds tothe ‘‘melting’’ (transformation) time. The gold nanorods in this example had an aspectratio of 2.9.<strong>Copyright</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Marcel</strong> <strong>Dekker</strong>, <strong>Inc</strong>. <strong>All</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Reserved</strong>.

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