Shape-tailoring and Catalytic Function of Anisotropic Gold Nanostructures

Overview

Journal Nanoscale Res Lett

Publisher Springer

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2011 Oct 7

PMID 21974964

Citations 4

Authors

Thathan Premkumar

Kyungjae Lee

Kurt E Geckeler

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Abstract

We report a facile, one-pot, shape-selective synthesis of gold nanoparticles in high yield by the reaction of an aqueous potassium tetrachloroaurate(III) solution with a commercially available detergent. We prove that a commercial detergent can act as a reducing as well as stabilizing agent for the synthesis of differently shaped gold nanoparticles in an aqueous solution at an ambient condition. It is noteworthy that the gold nanoparticles with different shapes can be prepared by simply changing the reaction conditions. It is considered that a slow reduction of the gold ions along with shape-directed effects of the components of the detergent plays a vital function in the formation of the gold nanostructures. Further, the as-prepared gold nanoparticles showed the catalytic activity for the reduction reaction of 4-nitrophenol in the presence of sodium borohydride at room temperature.

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