Issue 13, 2016
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Controlling an electrostatic repulsion by oppositely charged surfactants towards positively charged fluorescent gold nanoclusters†

Ryan D. Corpuz,a   Yohei Ishidaa  and  Tetsu Yonezawa*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Division of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita 13, Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan
E-mail: tetsu@eng.hokudai.ac.jp

Abstract

A novel positively charged fluorescent gold nanocluster was successfully synthesized using the shortest cationic thiol, thiocholine. Effective control of electrostatic repulsion by the introduction of an anionic surfactant afforded a nanocluster that showed blue fluorescence emission.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CP00538A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Jan 2016
Accepted
09 Feb 2016
First published
09 Feb 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016,18, 8773-8776

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Controlling an electrostatic repulsion by oppositely charged surfactants towards positively charged fluorescent gold nanoclusters

R. D. Corpuz, Y. Ishida and T. Yonezawa, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2016, 18, 8773 DOI: 10.1039/C6CP00538A

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