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NANOSCALE
Volume 7, Issue 48, Pages 20734-20742Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5nr06491k
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- National Center for Research Resources [G12RR013646-12]
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities from the National Institutes of Health [G12MD007591]
- CONACYT (Mexico)
- DGAPA-UNAM [IN108915]
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Nanoalloys have emerged as multi-functional nanoparticles with applications in biomedicine and catalysis. This work reports the efficient production and the advanced transmission electron microscopy characterization of gold-copper pentagonal nanostars. The morphology of the branches is controlled by the adequate choice of the capping agent. When oleylamine is used rounded nanostars are produced, while pointed nanostars are obtained by using hexadecylamine. Both types of nanostars were proved to be thermally stable and could therefore be used as therapeutic agents in photo-thermal therapies as confirmed by the near-infrared absorption spectra.
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