Implications of citrate concentration during the seeded growth synthesis of gold nanoparticles
- 7 October 2010
- journal article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 47 (1), 478-480
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c0cc02075c
Abstract
Increasing the citrate concentration during the seeded growth synthesis of gold nanoparticles yields materials with decreased aspect ratios and increased defect densities. The stability of these nanoparticles is attributed to variations in their overall Gibb's free energy.Keywords
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