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| Title |
Tunability and stability of gold nanoparticles obtained from chloroauric acid and sodium thiosulfate reaction
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| Published in |
Discover Nano, June 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1556-276x-7-337 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Guandong Zhang, Jacek B Jasinski, Justin Lee Howell, Dhruvinkumar Patel, Dennis P Stephens, Andre M Gobin |
| Abstract |
In the quest for producing an effective clinically relevant therapeutic agent, scalability, repeatability, and stability are paramount. In this paper, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) with precisely controlled near infrared (NIR) absorption are synthesized by a single step reaction of HAuCl4 and Na2S2O3, without assistance of additional templates, capping reagents or seeds. The anisotropy in the shape of gold nanoparticles offers high NIR absorption making it therapeutically relevant. The synthesized products consist of GNPs with different shape and size, including small spherical colloid gold particles and non-spherical gold crystals. The NIR absorption wavelengths and particle size increase with increasing molar ratio of HAuCl4/Na2S2O3. Non-spherical gold particles can be further purified and separated by centrifugation to improve the NIR absorbing fraction of particles. In-depth studies reveal that GNPs with good structural and optical stability only form in a certain range of the HAuCl4/Na2S2O3 molar ratio, whereas higher molar ratios result in unstable GNPs, which lose their NIR absorption peak due to decomposition and reassembly via Ostwald ripening. Tuning the optical absorption of the gold nanoparticles in the NIR regime via a robust and repeatable method will improve many applications requiring large quantities of desired NIR absorbing nanoparticles. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Ireland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 95 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 25% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 16% |
| Researcher | 12 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 13% |
| Unknown | 18 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | 34 | 34% |
| Engineering | 9 | 9% |
| Materials Science | 9 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 12% |
| Unknown | 20 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 November 2014.
All research outputs
#8,261,756
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Discover Nano
#209
of 1,146 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#57,756
of 177,754 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Discover Nano
#6
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 66th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,146 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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