Nucleation and island growth of alkanethiolate ligand domains on gold nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 629-640

  Wang, Yifeng ^a   Zeiri, Offer ^a   Neyman, Alevtina ^a   Stellacci, Francesco ^b,c   Weinstock, Ira A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

alkanethiol; cryo TEM; gold nanoparticle; island growth; kinetics; monolayer

Indexed keywords

ALKANETHIOLATE LIGANDS; ALKANETHIOLATES; ALKANETHIOLS; ASSOCIATIVE MECHANISMS; AVRAMI PARAMETER; CRYO-TEM; CRYOGENIC TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (CRYO-TEM); FIRST-ORDER; GOLD NANOPARTICLE; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD SURFACES; HYDROPHOBIC DOMAINS; ISLAND GROWTH; KINETIC DATA; KOLMOGOROV MODEL; METAL-OXIDE CLUSTERS; RAPID GROWTH; SLOW PHASE; UV-VIS SPECTROSCOPY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ENZYME KINETICS; GOLD; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; LIGANDS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; MOLECULES; MONOLAYERS; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEATION; RATE CONSTANTS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

GOLD COMPOUNDS;

ALKANE; GOLD; NANOMATERIAL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALKANES; CRYSTALLIZATION; GOLD; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84856171134     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn204078w     Document Type: Article

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