1. Gold hollow spheres obtained using an innovative emulsion process: towards multifunctional Au nanoshells.
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Francois Lux, Frederic Lerouge, Jocelyne Bosson, Gilles Lemercier, Chantal Andraud, Guy Vitrant, Patrice L Baldeck, Fernand Chassagneux, and Stephane Parola
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EMULSIONS , *COLLOIDAL gold , *NANOTECHNOLOGY , *SURFACE plasmon resonance , *CHEMICAL reduction , *CHLORIDES - Abstract
The tremendous development of materials with fine tuning of their composition, shape, size and chemical functionalities at the nanometer scale has opened a wide range of applications, particularly in medicine. Metallic nanoparticles are extremely interesting for such developments. The fundamental study of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) versus the shape/size of a particle is an important challenge. In this field, we propose a synthetic strategy using an original biphasic emulsion process linked to chemo-reduction of gold salt HAuCl4. This method allows the preparation of new functional nanocapsules. These nanomaterials are fully characterized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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