Self-organization of mixtures of fluorocarbon and hydrocarbon amphiphilic thiolates on the surface of gold nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7243-7253

  Posocco, Paola ^a   Gentilini, Cristina ^a   Bidoggia, Silvia ^a   Pace, Alice ^a   Franchi, Paola ^b   Lucarini, Marco ^b   Fermeglia, Maurizio ^a   Pricl, Sabrina ^a   Pasquato, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

electron spin resonance; gold nanoparticles; ligand morphology; multiscale molecular modeling; phase separation; self assembly

Indexed keywords

AMPHIPHILICS; EXPLICIT WATER; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GOLD SURFACES; IN-SILICO; INNER REGION; MIXED MONOLAYERS; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MULTI-SCALE MOLECULAR MODELING; MULTISCALES; PERFLUOROCARBONS; PHASE SEGREGATIONS; THIOLATES; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

HYDROCARBONS; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHASE SEPARATION; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

FLUOROCARBON; GOLD; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; NANOMATERIAL; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

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

CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUOROCARBONS; GOLD; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84865607148     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302366q     Document Type: Article

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