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A Simple Method for the Size Controlled Synthesis of Stable Oligomeric Clusters of Gold Nanoparticles under Ambient Conditions
Published on: February 5, 2016
The fragmentation of gold nanoparticles induced by small biomolecules
Tie Wang1, Xiaoge Hu, Shaojun Dong
1Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, People's Republic of China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 26, 2008
Abstract:
Spherical gold nanoparticles (3-5 nm) undergo a surprising fragmentation without extra energy input and are converted into ultrasmall particles (less than 1.5 nm), which is a direct result of electron transfer between gold nanoparticles and cysteine.
