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Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis
Published on: July 10, 2021
Linking gold nanoparticles with conductive 1,4-phenylene diisocyanide-gold oligomers
John Kestell1, Rasha Abuflaha, J Anibal Boscoboinik
1Department of Chemistry and Laboratory for Surface Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.
Abstract:
It is demonstrated that 1,4-phenylene diisocyanide (PDI)-gold oligomers can spontaneously bridge between gold nanoparticles on mica, thereby providing a strategy for electrically interconnecting nanoelectrodes. The barrier height of the bridging oligomer is 0.10 ± 0.02 eV, within the range of previous single-molecule measurements of PDI.

