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Synthesis and Catalytic Performance of Gold Intercalated in the Walls of Mesoporous Silica
Published on: July 9, 2015
Synthesis of spongy gold nanocrystals with pronounced catalytic activities
Harunar Rashid1, Rama Ranjan Bhattacharjee, Atanu Kotal
1Polymer Science Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India.
Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|August 9, 2006
Abstract:
A simple and easier chemical method for preparing spongy gold nanocrystals has been developed on the basis of a modified-citrate reduction technique of the corresponding gold salt at 25 degrees C in the absence of template. These nanocrystals possessed autocatalytic behavior and exhibited pronounced catalytic activity in the borohydride reduction of 4-nitrophenol due to their unique spongy morphology.
