Journal
JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 17, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-015-3136-9
Keywords
Au nanorods; Plasmonics; CTAB; Hydroquinone; Nanoparticles
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- Fondazione Cariplo
- Italian Ministry of Health
- Regional Foundation for Biomedical Research, Lombardia
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In this article, we describe how it is possible to tune the size and the aspect ratio of gold nanorods obtained using a highly efficient protocol based on the use of hydroquinone as a reducing agent by varying the amounts of CTAB and silver ions present in the seed-growth solution. Our approach not only allows us to prepare nanorods with a four times increased Au3+ reduction yield, when compared with the commonly used protocol based on ascorbic acid, but also allows a remarkable reduction of 50-60 % of the amount of CTAB needed. In fact, according to our findings, the concentration of CTAB present in the seed-growth solution do not linearly influence the final aspect ratio of the obtained nanorods, and an optimal concentration range between 30 and 50 mM has been identified as the one that is able to generate particles with more elongated shapes. On the optimized protocol, the effect of the concentration of Ag+ ions in the seed-growth solution and the stability of the obtained particles has also been investigated.
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