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NANOSCALE ADVANCES
卷 3, 期 5, 页码 1422-1430出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0na00927j
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- Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI) program
- Australian Government, through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
- University of Adelaide
- Australian Research Council (ARC) [FT190100854]
- Australian Research Council [FT190100854] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
The study successfully deposited gold clusters Au101NC on reduced graphene oxide using a simple method, preventing their aggregation and showing potential for a wide range of applications.
Graphene supported transition metal clusters are of great interest for potential applications, such as catalysis, due to their unique properties. In this work, a simple approach to deposit Au-101(PPh3)(21)Cl-5 (Au101NC) on reduced graphene oxide (rGO) via an ex situ method is presented. Reduction of graphene oxide at native pH (pH approximate to 2) to rGO was performed under aqueous hydrothermal conditions. Decoration of rGO sheets with controlled content of 5 wt% Au was accomplished using only pre-synthesised Au101NC and rGO as precursors and methanol as solvent. High resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy indicated that the cluster size did not change upon deposition with an average diameter of 1.4 +/- 0.4 nm. It was determined that the rGO reduction method was crucial to avoid agglomeration, with rGO reduced at pH approximate to 11 resulting in agglomeration. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to confirm the deposition of Au101NCs and show the presence of triphenyl phosphine ligands, which together with attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, advocates that the deposition of Au101NCs onto the surface of rGO was facilitated via non-covalent interactions with the phenyl groups of the ligands. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and thermogravimetric analysis were used to determine the gold loading and both agree with a gold loading of ca. 4.8-5 wt%. The presented simple and mild strategy demonstrates that good compatibility between size-specific phosphine protected gold clusters and rGO can prevent aggregation of the metal clusters. This work contributes towards producing an agglomeration-free synthesis of size-specific ligated gold clusters on rGO that could have wide range of applications.
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