Co-sputtering of gold and copper onto liquids: a route towards the production of porous gold nanoparticles

Autor: Stephanos Konstantinidis, Abdel-Aziz El Mel, Milan Dopita, Jérôme Cornil, Cinthia Antunes Corrêa, Adrien Chauvin, David Cornil, Pierre-Yves Tessier, Anna Fucikova, Elen Duverger-Nédellec, Anastasiya P. Sergievskaya, J. Vesely
Přispěvatelé: Charles University [Prague] (CU), Centre d'Innovation et de Recherche en Matériaux Polymères (CIRMAP), Université de Mons (UMons), Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN), Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Nantes (EPUN), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN), Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU / CAS), Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS), University of Mons [Belgium] (UMONS)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology, Institute of Physics, 2020, 31 (45), pp.455303. ⟨10.1088/1361-6528/abaa75⟩
ISSN: 0957-4484
1361-6528
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/abaa75⟩
Popis: Effective methods for the synthesis of high-purity nanoparticles (NPs) have been extensively studied for a few decades. Among others, cold plasma-based sputtering metals onto a liquid substrate appears to be a very promising technique for the synthesis of high-purity NPs. The process enables the production of very small NPs without using any toxic reagents and complex chemical synthesis routes, and enables the synthesis of alloy NPs which can be the first step towards the formation of porous NPs. In this paper, the synthesis of gold-copper alloy NPs has been performed by co-sputtering gold and copper targets over pentaerythritol ethoxylate. The resulting solutions contain a mixture of gold, copper oxide, and alloy NPs having a radius of few angstroms. The annealing of these NPs, inside the solution, has been performed in order to increase their size and further induce the dealloying of the Au-Cu NPs. The resulting NPs exhibit either a nanoporous structure or are self-organized in an agglomerate of small NPs.
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