Little adjustments significantly improve the Turkevich synthesis of gold nanoparticles

Langmuir

Volumn 30, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 10779-10784

  Schulz, Florian ^a   Homolka, Torge ^a   Bastús, Neus G ^b   Puntes, Victor ^b   Weller, Horst ^a,c   Vossmeyer, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; METAL NANOPARTICLES;

CITRATE BUFFER; CITRATE SOLUTIONS; KEY FEATURE; LARGE VOLUMES; OPTIMIZED PROTOCOL; PRECURSOR CONCENTRATION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84929999852     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la503209b     Document Type: Article

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