Reducing the symmetry of bimetallic Au@Ag nanoparticles by exploiting eccentric polymer shells

Shuangxi Xing; Yuhua Feng; Yee Yan Tay; Tao Chen; Jun Xu; Ming Pan; Jiating He; Huey Hoon Hng; Qingyu Yan; Hongyu Chen

doi:10.1021/ja102591z

Reducing the symmetry of bimetallic Au@Ag nanoparticles by exploiting eccentric polymer shells

J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Jul 21;132(28):9537-9. doi: 10.1021/ja102591z.

Authors

Shuangxi Xing¹, Yuhua Feng, Yee Yan Tay, Tao Chen, Jun Xu, Ming Pan, Jiating He, Huey Hoon Hng, Qingyu Yan, Hongyu Chen

Affiliation

¹ Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371.

PMID: 20583760
DOI: 10.1021/ja102591z

Abstract

We demonstrate a facile colloidal method for synthesizing Janus nanoparticles, whose eccentric polymer shells are exploited to fabricate eccentric bimetallic cores.