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Synthesis and Catalytic Performance of Gold Intercalated in the Walls of Mesoporous Silica
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Photocatalytic coalescence of functionalized gold nanoparticles
M Consuelo Cuquerella1, Salvador Pocoví-Martínez, Julia Pérez-Prieto
1Department of Organic Chemistry, ICMOL, Universidad de Valencia, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain.
Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|December 25, 2009
Abstract:
A novel strategy for the synthesis of chromophore-functionalized AuNPs with a narrow size distribution is reported. It consists of increasing the size of preprepared NPs by means of a fast (second scale) and clean (light and an organic photocatalyst) method. The results agree with thiolate ligand liberation from the NP surface promoted by photogenerated radicals. This lets gold cores come together and finally coalesce.
