A template-confined fabrication of controllable gold nanoparticles based on the two-dimensional nanostructure of macrocycles†
Abstract
An amine-substituted macrocycle 6Y, a rigid hexagonal ring, self-assembled into network architecture on the surface, which could be used as a molecular template to directly fabricate gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with narrow size distribution (2.2 ± 0.1 nm). This work demonstrated a new pathway for the formation of controllable AuNPs on the surface.