Interaction of colloidal nanoparticles with their local environment: The (ionic) nanoenvironment around nanoparticles is different from bulk and determines the physico-chemical properties of the nanoparticles

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 96, 2014, Pages

  Pfeiffer, Christian ^a   Rehbock, Christoph ^b   Hühn, Dominik ^a   Carrillo Carrion, Carolina ^a   De Aberasturi, Dorleta Jimenez ^a   Merk, Vivian ^b   Barcikowski, Stephan ^b   Parak, Wolfgang J ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colloids; Ion distribution; Screening

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; COLLOIDS; NANOPARTICLES; SCREENING; SURFACE REACTIONS;

COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES; COLLOIDAL STABILITY; ION CONCENTRATIONS; ION DISTRIBUTIONS; IONIC ENVIRONMENT; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY;

IONS;

COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLE; ION; LIGAND; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COLLOID;

COLLOID; ENVIRONMENT; NANOENVIRONMENT; PH; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; SENSOR; SURFACE CHARGE; SYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COLLOIDS; IONS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84900806279     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0931     Document Type: Review

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