Direct Synthesis of Liquid Metal Colloids and Their Transmetalation into Noble Metal Nanoparticles

Shinya Sudo, Shunjiro Nagata, Kenta Kokado, Kazuki Sada

Chemistry Letters · 2014 · 14 citations · 24 references

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Abstract

Abstract Facile mixing of a liquid metal, organic medium, and surfactant by sonication provided well-dispersed and uniformly sized gallium nanoparticles (GaNP). Furthermore, transformation to other noble metal nanoparticles having a similar size distribution was achieved via metal exchanging redox process utilizing the GaNP as the precursor.

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