1. Nanoparticle tracking analysis of gold nanomaterials stabilized by various capping agents
- Author
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Arancon, Rick Arneil D., Lin, Sandra H.T., Chen, Grace, Lin, Carol Sze Ki, Lai, Jianping, Xu, Guobao, Luque, Rafael, Arancon, Rick Arneil D., Lin, Sandra H.T., Chen, Grace, Lin, Carol Sze Ki, Lai, Jianping, Xu, Guobao, and Luque, Rafael
- Abstract
Gold colloidal nanomaterials have been synthesized using different methodologies and characterized by a novel nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) technique as compared to conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) characterisation. Results prove that NTA is a highly useful, simple, efficient and rapid characterisation tool for Au nanoparticles and nanorods, providing a highly reliable and fast alternative to traditional characterisation techniques. This approach provides a very simple way of studying nanoparticles and some of their properties. Studies on the stabilizing/capping effect of a variety of biomass-derived compounds also show different possibilities for the use of polysaccharide to stabilise colloidal Au solutions.
- Published
- 2014