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Published on: April 1, 2013
Ionic liquid-assisted synthesis of thorned gold plates comprising three-branched nanotip arrays
Yao Qin1, Yin Song, Teng Huang
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Hierarchically structured, thorned gold plates comprising regular, three-branched nanotip arrays were synthesized by a facile, one-pot reduction process in mixed solvents of the ionic liquid [BMIM][PF(6)] and formamide without additives.

