Thiol-ubiquinone assisted fragmentation of gold nanoparticles

  • Sara Riaz
  • , Wei Ma
  • , Chao Jing
  • , Mian Hasnain Nawaz
  • , Da Wei Li*
  • , Yi Tao Long
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1738-1740
Number of pages3
JournalChemical Communications
Volume49
Issue number17
DOIs
StatePublished - 31 Jan 2013
Externally publishedYes

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