title: Synthesis and surface modification of highly monodispersed, spherical gold nanoparticles of 50-200 nm.
abstract: Elucidating the impact of nanoparticle size and shape on biological systems is of fundamental importance to nanotoxicology and biomedicine. Currently, the ability to determine this is limited by the lack of a model nanoparticle system having a narrow size and shape distribution over the relevant size range (2-200 nm). Hydroquinone can be used to produce 50-200 nm gold nanoparticles that are relatively monodispersed in size with nearly spherical shapes.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, 160 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3E1.
authors.forename: Steven D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Perrault
authors.forename: Warren C W
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Chan
mesh_terms: D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D006046:Gold