title: Synthesis of bimetallic gold-silver alloy nanoclusters by simple mortar grinding.
abstract: A macroscale quantity of bimetallic Au-Ag alloy nanoclusters was achieved through sequential reduction by simple mortar grinding. The chitosan biopolymer was used as both a stabilizing and reducing agent. These nanoclusters exhibit excellent catalytic activity toward the reduction of 4-nitrophenol.
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Molecular Scale Nanoscience, Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444 8787, Japan.
authors.forename: Arumugam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Murugadoss
authors.forename: Noriko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kai
authors.forename: Hidehiro
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakurai