Issue 38, 2008
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Chemical Communications

The fragmentation of gold nanoparticles induced by small biomolecules†

Tie Wang,ab   Xiaoge Huab  and  Shaojun Dong*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, People’s Republic of China
E-mail: dongsj@ciac.jl.cn
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b Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Abstract

Spherical gold nanoparticles (3–5 nm) undergo a surprising fragmentation without extra energy imput and are converted into ultrasmall particles (less than 1.5 nm), which is a direct result of electron transfer between gold nanoparticles and cysteine.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B809736D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Jun 2008
Accepted
23 Jun 2008
First published
04 Aug 2008

Chem. Commun., 2008, 4625-4627

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