Jurvilliers Xavier, Schneider l Raphaël, Fort Yves, Walcarius Alain, Ghanbaja Jaafar
Laboratoire de Synthèse Organométallique et Réactivité (UMR 7565), Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy I, BP 239, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy Cedex, France.
J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2005 Feb;5(2):282-7. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2005.032.
Here we describe a new chemical route for obtaining nanometer-sized gold(0) particles with a narrow size distribution and a band gap of 1.45 eV. The synthetic method is based on the reduction of AuBr3 with t-BuOLi activated LiH in dioxane. The single-phase process developed allows the production of large quantities of stable thiol-uncapped gold(0) nanoparticles. These clusters were further used for the production of monodisperse Au nanoparticles with controlled surface properties through ligand exchange with 1-dodecanethiol or 1-decylamine.