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High Resolution Physical Characterization of Single Metallic Nanoparticles
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Electrochemical resolution of 15 oxidation states for monolayer protected gold nanoparticles
Bernadette M Quinn1, Peter Liljeroth, Virginia Ruiz
1Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 6100, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland. bquinn@cc.hut.fi
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|May 29, 2003
Abstract:
The first observation of 15 voltammetric quantized charging peaks for a solution of hexanethiol-capped gold nanoparticles (so-called monolayer protected clusters MPCs) at room temperature is reported where the variation in peak spacing with increasing charge stored in the metal core is discussed in terms of MPC capacitance.
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