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Thiol-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles: New Ways To Displace Thiol Layers Using Yttrium or Lanthanide Chlorides
Julie P Vanegas1, Juan C Scaiano1, Anabel E Lanterna1
1Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences and Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa , 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5N6, Canada.
Langmuir : the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
|October 8, 2017
Abstract:
We use the aurophilic interactions shown by lanthanides to overcome the sulfur-gold interaction. UV-vis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy confirm that yttrium or lanthanide chlorides easily displace sulfur ligands from the surface of thiol-stabilized gold nanoparticles.

