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Published on: April 1, 2013
Aqueous-phase synthesis of monodisperse plasmonic gold nanocrystals using shortened single-walled carbon nanotubes
Jin-Woo Kim1, Hyung-Mo Moon, Mourad Benamara
1Bio/Nano Technology Laboratory, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA. jwkim@uark.edu
Abstract:
Monodisperse gold nanocrystals with unique near-infrared optical properties were synthesized by simple mixing of highly shortened and well disperse single-walled carbon nanotubes and chloroauric acid in water at ambient conditions with a step-wise increase of gold ion concentration.

