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Influence of TX-100 on the size controlled synthesis of gold colloid

  • Ke Zhu
  • , Liqing Huang
  • , Jian Zhu
  • , Zhuoying Zhuang
  • Xi'an Jiaotong University

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Abstract

Gold colloids were synthesized via mixing the aqueous solution of HAuCl4 and Triton X-100 at room temperature. The gold sol samples were quickly obtained during first 2 h then the samples were placed for 8 h to ensure they were completely stable. The colour of most samples turned to violet red. But the sample with 0.5 ml TX-100 remained colorless. During synthesizing, UV-vis absorption spectra were recorded every 10 s. By studying the synthesis time-dependent surface plasmon resonance (SPR), we found that the growth of gold colloids presented an exponential increase form. By analyzing the TX-100 concentration dependence of absorption peak, the effect of TX-100 concentration on gold colloid diameter was studied and the gold colloid's final dimension was resulted from competition between reducing speed and coating speed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)566-571
Number of pages6
JournalSpectrochimica Acta - Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Volume69
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2008

Keywords

  • Coating speed
  • Gold colloids
  • Reducing speed
  • SPR
  • Triton X-100

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