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The use of CTAB to control the size of copper nanoparticles and the concentration of alkylthiols on their surfaces

✍ Lei Chen; Dingjun Zhang; Jianmin Chen; Huidi Zhou; Hongqi Wan 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 413 KB

Copper nanoparticles protected by self-assembled monolayers of decanethiol have been prepared by the controlled reduction of aqueous copper salts using the modified Brust synthesis. For comparison, the nanoparticles are synthesized on different concentration of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB).