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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages 3707-3716Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3ra22830d
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- National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)
- Thailand Research Fund (TRF)
- Chulalongkorn University Centenary Academic Development Project (Under the Center of Innovative Nanotechnology, Chulalongkorn University)
- Commission of Higher Education (CHE)
- Development and Promotion of Science and Technology Talents (DPST) Project
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We report here a simple yet efficient approach for fabricating large gold nanosheets using H2O2 as the reducing agent with starch as the stabilizer and shape-controlling agent. The weak reducing capability of H2O2 enables a kinetically controlled growth of nanosheets out of flower-like nanostructures formed at the early stage. Small nanosheets with starch-bound {111} facet undergo oriented attachment and become large nanosheets having lateral size as large as 50 mu m with 20-50 nm thickness. Without starch, gold quasi-microspheres with diameters of 5-10 mu m become the dominant product as they also grow out of the flower-like nanostructures by filling gold atoms in the gaps between nano-petals. This starch-enable selective formation of large nanosheets is rapid and efficient as a 100% conversion could be attained even at a high concentration of gold ions (25.4 mM). A large-scale production of 2.5 g glittering gold nanosheets with a 5-L batch 10 h synthesis was demonstrated. The synthetic protocol was not only achieving atomic economy using an environmental friendly reducing reagent and renewable stabilizer, the mass-scale production prototype was accomplished at room temperature without a need for extensive waste treatment. The slightly acidic starch solution obtained after the reaction was recycled for the next synthesis or neutralized before discharging.
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