Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 26, Issue 10, Pages 7458-7463Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la904179x
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- Generalitat Valenciana [IMPIVA-IMCITA/2007/02, ACOMP07-120]
- Spanish MEC [TEC2005-05781-C03-03, TEC2008-06756-C03-03]
- MICINN
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Here we describe a simple, powerful technique based on the laser ablation of a target immersed in a water solution of a metal salt. With this method, nanoparticles of different metals and alloys can be processed very quickly. Both the target and the salt solution can be chosen to produce metal nanoparticles of different sizes, surface-oxidized nanoparticles (silica-silver, for example), or even more complex structures to be defined by the researcher on one or more steps because the technique combines the advantages of both physical and chemical methods. We have applied this technique to the fabrication of inert silica-metal (silver, gold, and silver-gold) nanoparticles with a strong surface plasmon resonance all together in a single step. The advantage of the simultaneous production of silica during laser ablation is the stabilization of the metal nanoparticle colloid but also the possibility to reduce the toxicity of these nanoparticles.
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