Brought to you by:

Gold hollow spheres obtained using an innovative emulsion process: towards multifunctional Au nanoshells

, , , , , , , and

Published 12 August 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation François Lux et al 2009 Nanotechnology 20 355603 DOI 10.1088/0957-4484/20/35/355603

0957-4484/20/35/355603

Abstract

The tremendous development of materials with fine tuning of their composition, shape, size and chemical functionalities at the nanometer scale has opened a wide range of applications, particularly in medicine. Metallic nanoparticles are extremely interesting for such developments. The fundamental study of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) versus the shape/size of a particle is an important challenge. In this field, we propose a synthetic strategy using an original biphasic emulsion process linked to chemo-reduction of gold salt HAuCl4. This method allows the preparation of new functional nanocapsules. These nanomaterials are fully characterized.

Export citation and abstract BibTeX RIS

Please wait… references are loading.
10.1088/0957-4484/20/35/355603