A protecting group approach toward synthesis of Au-silica Janus nanostars.
The concept of protecting groups, widely used in organic chemistry, has been applied for the synthesis of Au-silica Janus stars, in which gold branches protrude from one half of Au-silica Janus spheres. This configuration opens up new possibilities to apply the plasmonic properties of gold nanostars, as well as a variety of chemical functionalizations on the silica component.
BioNanoPlasmonics Laboratory, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo de Miramón 182, 20009 Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain. llizmarzan@cicbiomagune.es.
Denis
D
Rodríguez-Fernández
Thomas
T
Altantzis
Hamed
H
Heidari
Sara
S
Bals
Luis M
LM
Liz-Marzán
D060326:Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*
D006046:Gold; D012822:Silicon Dioxide