N-Heterocyclic carbene-stabilized gold nanoparticles and their assembly into 3D superlattices

Joan Vignolle (1, 2) , T. Don Tilley (3)

1 LCPO - Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques
2 Team 1 LCPO : Polymerization Catalyses & Engineering
3 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]

The facile one-phase synthesis of N-heterocyclic carbene-stabilized gold nanoparticles (NHC-AuNP) by reduction of NHC-gold(I) complexes and their self-assembly into 3D super-lattices is presented.

Mots clés: IONIC LIQUIDS; CLUSTER MOLECULES; AU-55 CLUSTERS; METAL-SURFACES; COMPLEXES; NANOCRYSTALS; SIZE; CATALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; SHAPE

Domaines: Polymères

Joan Vignolle, T. Don Tilley. N-Heterocyclic carbene-stabilized gold nanoparticles and their assembly into 3D superlattices. Chemical Communications, 2009, 46, pp.7230-7232. ⟨10.1039/b913884f⟩. ⟨hal-00947078⟩