Fabrication of Size-Tunable Metallic Nanoparticles Using Plasmid DNA as a Biomolecular Reactor
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental Section
2.1. Instrumentation and Materials
2.1.1. UV-Visible
2.1.2. Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM)
2.1.3. Gel Electrophoresis
2.1.4. Plasmid DNA
2.1.5. Metal Nanoparticles
3. Results and Discussion
4. Ag, Pd, and Cr Nanoparticles
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Material
nanomaterials-01-00064-s001.pdfAcknowledgments
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Samson, J.; Piscopo, I.; Yampolski, A.; Nahirney, P.; Parpas, A.; Aggarwal, A.; Saleh, R.; Drain, C.M. Fabrication of Size-Tunable Metallic Nanoparticles Using Plasmid DNA as a Biomolecular Reactor. Nanomaterials 2011, 1, 64-78. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano1010064
Samson J, Piscopo I, Yampolski A, Nahirney P, Parpas A, Aggarwal A, Saleh R, Drain CM. Fabrication of Size-Tunable Metallic Nanoparticles Using Plasmid DNA as a Biomolecular Reactor. Nanomaterials. 2011; 1(1):64-78. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano1010064
Chicago/Turabian StyleSamson, Jacopo, Irene Piscopo, Alex Yampolski, Patrick Nahirney, Andrea Parpas, Amit Aggarwal, Raihan Saleh, and Charles Michael Drain. 2011. "Fabrication of Size-Tunable Metallic Nanoparticles Using Plasmid DNA as a Biomolecular Reactor" Nanomaterials 1, no. 1: 64-78. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano1010064