- Article
Alkyl and Aromatic Amines as Digestive Ripening/Size Focusing Agents for Gold Nanoparticles
- Yijun Sun,
- Deepa Jose,
- Christopher Sorensen and
- Kenneth J. Klabunde
Both long chain alkyl thiols and alkyl amines behave as size focusing agents for gold nanoparticles, a process that is under thermodynamic control. However, amines do not oxidize surface gold atoms while thiols do oxidize surface gold to gold(I) with...

