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- Title
- High-temperature seedless synthesis of gold nanorods
- Author(s)
- Zijlstra, Peter; Bullen, Craig; Chon, James W. M.; Gu, Min
- Abstract
- We demonstrate seedless synthesis of gold nanorods at high temperatures up to 97°C. Using the correct silver nitrate concentration is crucial for formation of rod-shaped particles at all temperatures. We observed a decrease of nanorod length with increasing temperature, while the width stays constant throughout the temperature range. From kinetics studies, we show 3 orders of magnitude increase in nanorod growth rate when the temperature is raised from room temperature to 97°C. From the temperature dependence of the growth rate, we obtain a average activation energy for growth on all facets of 90 ± 10 kJ mol-1. High-temperature synthesis of gold nanorods presents a more attractive method for scalable flow-based production of gold nanorods.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Source
- Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 110, no. 39 (2006), p. 19315-19318
- Publication year
- 2006
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- ISSN
- 1520-6106
- Publisher URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp0635866
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2006 American Chemical Society. Publisher does not officially support author/institution self-archiving of either the post-print (final, revised accepted draft) and/or published version of full-text.
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