Issue 17, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Thiol-ubiquinone assisted fragmentation of gold nanoparticles†

Sara Riaz,a   Wei Ma,a   Chao Jing,a   Mian Hasnain Nawaz,b   Da-Wei Li*a  and  Yi-Tao Long*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering & Department of Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, China
E-mail: daweili@ecust.edu.cn, ytlong@ecust.edu.cn

b Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, China

Abstract

We report the spontaneous fragmentation of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) induced, in aqueous solution at room temperature, by thiol derivative of ubiquinone, which involves the energetic electron injection from thiol-ubiquinone to the gold nanoparticles.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC38398A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Nov 2012
Accepted
11 Jan 2013
First published
14 Jan 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 1738-1740

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Thiol-ubiquinone assisted fragmentation of gold nanoparticles

S. Riaz, W. Ma, C. Jing, M. H. Nawaz, D. Li and Y. Long, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 1738 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC38398A

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