Issue 13, 2016

Spatially-controlled growth of platinum on gold nanorods with tailoring plasmonic and catalytic properties

Abstract

We describe the synthesis of bimetallic dendritic platinum decorated gold nanorods (AuNRs) by the spatial control of Pt growth over gold nanorods using a heterogeneous seed-mediated growth method. The amounts of the Au seed and Pt-precursor were changed to achieve a tunable volume fraction of Pt coverage on the Au NRs surface. Pt nanostructures were spatially separated from each other, which was highly favorable for promising optical and catalytic properties. The dendritic-Pt decorated AuNRs with variable Au/Pt ratios were exploited to study their surface plasmonic properties and catalytic activities. Interestingly, the Pt decorated AuNRs showed strong surface plasmon resonance (SPR) peak due to noncompact dendritic Pt shell in contrast to the conventional core–shell Au@Pt nanoparticles (NPs). Moreover, the longitudinal peak of the AuNRs was finely tuned from 820 to 950 nm (NIR region) by controlling the volume fraction of the Pt decoration over the AuNRs. The catalytic activity of the dendritic-Pt decorated AuNRs on the reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) by sodium borohydride (NaBH4) as reducing agent was studied and found to be superior to the activities compared to the monometallic Au NRs. Considering practical applications, dendritic-Pt decorated AuNRs nanostructures were immobilized successfully on the hydrophilic polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) film as an efficient reusable catalyst.

Graphical abstract: Spatially-controlled growth of platinum on gold nanorods with tailoring plasmonic and catalytic properties

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Nov 2015
Accepted
05 Jan 2016
First published
08 Jan 2016

RSC Adv., 2016,6, 10713-10718

Author version available

Spatially-controlled growth of platinum on gold nanorods with tailoring plasmonic and catalytic properties

Y. Rong, A. Dandapat, Y. Huang, Y. Sasson, L. Zhang, L. Dai, J. Zhang, Z. Guo and T. Chen, RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 10713 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA23175B

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