Related Experiment Video
Updated: May 4, 2026
13:42
Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis
Published on: July 10, 2021
14.8K
Template synthesis of gold nanoparticles with an organic molecular cage
Ryan McCaffrey1, Hai Long, Yinghua Jin
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and ⊥Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|January 18, 2014
Abstract:
We report a novel strategy for the controlled synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with narrow size distribution (1.9 ± 0.4 nm) through NP nucleation and growth inside the cavity of a well-defined three-dimensional, shape-persistent organic molecular cage. Our results show that both a well-defined cage structure and pendant thioether groups pointing inside the cavity are essential for the AuNP synthesis.
