Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 298 Số 5601 - Trang 2176-2179 - 2002
Yugang Sun1, Younan Xia1
1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA

Tóm tắt

Monodisperse samples of silver nanocubes were synthesized in large quantities by reducing silver nitrate with ethylene glycol in the presence of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP). These cubes were single crystals and were characterized by a slightly truncated shape bounded by {100}, {110}, and {111} facets. The presence of PVP and its molar ratio (in terms of repeating unit) relative to silver nitrate both played important roles in determining the geometric shape and size of the product. The silver cubes could serve as sacrificial templates to generate single-crystalline nanoboxes of gold: hollow polyhedra bounded by six {100} and eight {111} facets. Controlling the size, shape, and structure of metal nanoparticles is technologically important because of the strong correlation between these parameters and optical, electrical, and catalytic properties.

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Supported in part by the Office of Naval Research (grant N-00014-01-1-0976) a Career Award from NSF (grant DMR-9983893) and a research fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Y.X. is a Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar (2002–2007) and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2000–2002). We thank D. Qin of the Nanotech User Facility for SEM analysis and X. Jiang Y. Yin Y. Lu B. Mayers and T. Herricks for their help with electron and x-ray diffraction studies.