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NANOSCALE ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 21, Pages 4490-4501Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2na00542e
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- New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) [JPNP20004]
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Using plasma-liquid interactions (PLIs), gold nanoparticles (GNPs) can be synthesized with high-quality size and surface properties. By adding suitable ligands to the precursor solution, the size of the GNPs can be precisely controlled. The potency of the size-control depends on the type of ligands, with thiol>amine>carboxylate. XPS, FTIR, and zeta potential techniques confirmed the presence of these ligands on GNPs.
Using gold nanoparticles (GNPs) in high-standard applications requires GNPs to be fabricated with high-quality size and surface properties. Plasma-liquid interactions (PLIs) have the unique ability to synthesize GNPs without using any reducing agents, and the GNP surface is free of stabilizing agents. It is an extreme advantage that ensures success for the subsequent functionalization processes for GNPs. However, fabricating GNPs via PLIs at the desired size has still been a challenge. Here, we present a simple approach to achieving the precise size-control of GNPs synthesized by PLIs. By adding suitable ligands to the precursor solution, the ligands wrap GNPs which interrupts and slows down the rapid growth of GNPs under PLIs. This way, the size of the GNPs can be precisely controlled by adjusting the ligand concentration. Our results showed that the size of the GNPs in the range of 10-60 nm can be fitted to reciprocal functions of the ligand concentration. The potency of the size-control depends on the type of ligands in the order of thiol > amine > carboxylate. The size-control has been well investigated with four common ligands: l-cysteine, glucosamine, salicylic acid, and terephthalic acid. XPS, FTIR, and zeta potential techniques confirmed the presence of these ligands on GNPs. The results indicated that functionalized ligands could be utilized to control the size and functionalize the GNP surface. Hence our approach could simultaneously achieve two goals: precise size-control and functionalization of GNPs without the ligand-exchange step.
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