1. Synthesis and Properties of Tadpole-Shaped Gold Nanoparticles.
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Jianqiang Hu, Yong Zhang, Bo Liu, Jinxuan Liu, Haihul Zhou, Yunfeng Xu, Yuxiong Jiang, Zhilin Yang, and Zhong-Qun Tian
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NANOPARTICLES , *GOLD , *OPTICS , *SODIUM , *CITRATES , *INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems - Abstract
This article focuses on the synthesis and properties of tadpole-shaped gold nanoparticles. Metal building blocks with dimensions on the nanometer scale exhibit a wide range of unique electrical and optical properties associated with both their structures and shapes, and thus they have potential for fabricating electrical devices, biological labels, optical devices, magnetic data storage systems, and biological sensors. Well-defined, single, dispersed, structurally unusual, tadpole-shaped gold nanoparticles were synthesized by the reduction of chloroauric acid with tri-sodium citrate in the presence of a capping agent such as sodium dodecylsulfonate.
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- 2004
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