Salt-mediated self-assembly of thioctic acid on gold nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4570-4580

  Volkert, Anna A ^a   Subramaniam, Varuni ^a   Ivanov, Michael R ^a   Goodman, Amanda M ^a   Haes, Amanda J ^a  

^a The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

gold nanoparticles; nanoparticle stability; self assembled monolayers; thioctic acid

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPATIBILITY; COVALENTLY BOUND; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTION ENERGY; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; FUNCTIONALIZED; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULAR PACKING DENSITY; MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY; NANO-SCALE MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLE SURFACE; PACKING DENSITY; SAMS; THIOCTIC ACID;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; COENZYMES; GOLD; IONIC STRENGTH; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD; INORGANIC SALT; ION; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; THIOCTIC ACID;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SPECTROMETRY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; GOLD; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SALTS; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THIOCTIC ACID;

EID: 79959786476     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200276a     Document Type: Article

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