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Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis
Published on: July 10, 2021
Effective gel for gold nanoparticle formation, support and metal oxide templating
Xingdong Wang1, Caroline E Egan, Meifang Zhou
1PFPC, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic. 3010, Australia.
Abstract:
Gold nanoparticles were synthesized using agarose as a reducing agent, which gelled to support the gold nanoparticles, then readily functioned as a template to produce a porous, evenly-distributed Au/TiO(2) nano-hybrid.

