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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 20, Issue 18, Pages 5822-5831Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cm801475v
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- Air Office of Scientific Research and the Office of Naval Research
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We report on preparation of redox-active nanoscale layer-by-layer (LbL) films with polyaminoacid-decorated surfaces that serve for both nucleation and growth of uniformly distributed gold nanoparticles at ambient conditions. We found that a poly-L-tyrosine (pTyr), a synthetic polyaminoacid, was able to direct nanoparticle formation to solid, flexible, and patterned surfaces preventing particle agglomeration. The gold particles were 8 +/- 2 nm in diameter, surrounded by 3-6 nm polyaminoacid shell, and confined to the topmost polyaminoacid layer. The reported results on bioinspired gold formation can be readily expanded to any inorganic-selective surface and provide a simple, robust, and nontoxic method to obtain nonaggregated inorganic nanoparticles at ambient conditions.
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