Investigation of Electrochemical Charging Behaviors of “Naked” Gold Nanoparticles Ensembles in Aqueous Media

✍ Scribed by Wen-Long Cheng; Xiao-Jun Han; Zhang-Quan Peng; Shao-Jun Dogn; Er-Kang Wang

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 499 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0256-7660
• DOI: 10.1002/cjoc.20020201020

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Gold nanoparticles were immobilized onto the electrode surface by simple self‐assembly technique. Interestingly, the ensembles of these nanoparticles exhibit quantized charging behaviors in aqueous solution. Possible mechanism for such behaviors was proposed.