title: Core-shell bimetallic nanoparticles robustly fixed on the outermost surface of magnetic silica microspheres.
abstract: The major challenges in practically utilising the immense potential benefits of nanomaterials are controlling aggregation, recycling the nanomaterials, and fabricating well-defined nanoparticulate materials using innovative methods. We present a novel innovative synthetic strategy for core-shell bimetallic nanoparticles that are well-defined, ligand-free, and robustly fixed on the outermost surface of recyclable magnetic silica microspheres. The strategy includes seeding, coalescing the seeds to cores, and then growing shells from the cores on aminopropyl-functionalised silica microspheres so that the cores and aminopropyl moieties are robustly embedded in the shell materials. The representative Au-Ag bimetallic nanoparticles fixed on the microsphere showed excellent catalytic performance that remained consistent during repeated catalytic cycles.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Recognition Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, P. O. Box 131, Cheongryang, Seoul 130-650, Korea.
authors.forename: Hye Hun
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Kyoungja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: Jae-Pyoung
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Ahn