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Tunable synthesis of poly(ethylene imine)-gold nanoparticle clusters
Florian Kretschmer1, Ulrich Mansfeld, Stephanie Hoeppener
1Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstr. 10, 07743 Jena, Germany. ulrich.schubert@uni-jena.de.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 5, 2013
Abstract:
The reaction of tetrachloroauric acid in DMF with poly(ethylene imine) (PEI) as a reducing agent yields spherical nanoparticles. Depending on the reaction conditions single gold nanoparticles or gold-PEI clusters with tunable size up to 200 nm in diameter were obtained which could serve as potential building blocks for metamaterials.
