Ultrafast, 2 min synthesis of monolayer-protected gold nanoclusters (d < 2 nm).
An ultrafast synthesis method is presented for hexanethiolate-coated gold nanoclusters (d < 2 nm, <250 atoms per nanocluster), which takes only 2 min and can be easily reproduced. With two immiscible solvents, gold nanoclusters are separated from the reaction byproducts fast and easily without any need for post-synthesis cleaning.
Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.
Matthew N
MN
Martin
Dawei
D
Li
Amala
A
Dass
Sang-Kee
SK
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