The Importance of the CTAB Surfactant on the Colloidal Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Gold Nanorods
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- 10 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 24 (3) , 644-649
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la703625a
Abstract
Gold nanorods were synthesized by the colloidal seed-mediated, surfactant-assisted approach [Gou et al., Chem. Mater. 2005, 17, 3668-3672] using CTAB (hexadecylcetyltrimethylammonium bromide) obtained from ten different suppliers. The yield of gold nanorods depended strongly on the CTAB used: with the same recipe, three of the CTABs did not yield nanorods and produced only spherical gold particles, whereas the other CTABs yielded nanorods with nearly 100% yield. These results suggest that an impurity in the CTAB is very important for nanorod formation.Keywords
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