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Dynamics of Gold Nanoparticles on Carbon Nanostructures Driven by van der Waals and Electrostatic Interactions
Alessandro La Torre1, Maria del Carmen Gimenez-Lopez1, Michael W Fay2
1School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
Small (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|February 18, 2015
Abstract:
Transmission electron microscopy studies on the assembly and growth of gold nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes supported on few-layer graphene and amorphous carbon reveal a competition between van der Waals forces and electrostatic interactions, enabling controlled positioning and sizing of adsorbed nanoparticles at the nanochannels formed between the carbon nanotube and the few-layer graph-ene surface.
