title: Facile synthesis of stable, water soluble, dendron-coated gold nanoparticles.
abstract: Upon reduction with sodium borohydride, diazonium tetrachloroaurate salts of triazine dendrons yield dendron-coated gold nanoparticles connected by a gold-carbon bond. These robust nanoparticles are stable in water and toluene solutions for longer than one year and present surface groups that can be reacted to change surface chemistry and manipulate solubility. Molecular modeling was used to provide insight on the hydration of the nanoparticles and their observed solubilties.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA.
authors.forename: Alan E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Enciso
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, King's College, London Strand, London WC2R 2NS, UK.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Doni
authors.affiliation: NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nifosì
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland and Facoltá di Informatica, Istituto di Scienze Computazionali, Universitá della Svizzera Italiana, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Ferruccio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Palazzesi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6849-1799
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: Ashley A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Ellsworth
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffery L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Coffer
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX 75080, USA.
authors.forename: Amy V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.affiliation: Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Galleria 2, Via Cantonale 2c, CH-6928 Manno, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Giovanni M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Pavan
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA and Department of Chemistry, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
authors.forename: Ahmed A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76109, USA.
authors.forename: Eric E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Simanek