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Gold Nanostar Synthesis with a Silver Seed Mediated Growth Method
Published on: January 15, 2012
Implications of citrate concentration during the seeded growth synthesis of gold nanoparticles
Anna A Volkert1, Varuni Subramaniam, Amanda J Haes
1University of Iowa, Department of Chemistry, 204 IATL, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 9, 2010
Abstract:
Increasing the citrate concentration during the seeded growth synthesis of gold nanoparticles yields materials with decreased aspect ratios and increased defect densities. The stability of these nanoparticles is attributed to variations in their overall Gibb's free energy.
