CTAB promoted synthesis of Au nanorods – Temperature effects and stability considerations

Optical properties and microstructure of Au nanorods via seed solution amount variation synthesized by seed-mediated growth method

“…The seed solution used for the synthesis of GNRs was prepared by the standard CTAB/NaBH 4 procedure, as previously reported of Becker et al [24]. Here, 1 ml of 5 mM HAuCl 4 was blended with 19 ml of 0.1 M CTAB solution.…”

“…The relationship between the maximum wavelength (l max ) of the LPSR and AR value have been reported using the following formula expressed by many previous studies [2,24,31]: Fig. 2 shows the values of AR calculated from the maximum wavelength of LPSR in Fig.…”

Quantitative Understanding of Nanoparticle Uptake in Watermelon Plants

“…Chemical fertilizer uptake efficiency in plants is low due to fixation of nutrients with other soil composites or run off due to precipitation leading to a growing anthropogenic eutrophication issue (Smith et al, 1999; Hautier et al, 2014). To address these challenges, nanoparticles have been researched for use as insecticides (Wibowo et al, 2014), fungicides (Becker et al, 2010; Capaldi Arruda et al, 2015; Saharan et al, 2015) and nanofertilizers (DeRosa et al, 2010; Raliya and Tarafdar, 2013; Liu and Lal, 2014, 2015; Raliya et al, 2014, 2016; Tarafdar et al, 2014). While there has been a significant push to engineer beneficial nanoparticles, there are also unintentional exposures and releases of nanoparticles from various industries that may end up in the ecosystem (Biswas and Wu, 2005; Yang et al, 2014).…”

Ultrafast growth of dendritic gold nanostructures and their applications in methanol electro-oxidation and surface-enhanced Raman scattering

“…In particular, gold nanostructures with controllable shapes have attracted great research interest as a result of their unique electrical and optical properties [6][7][8][9]. To date, most of the reports on controlling synthesis of gold nanostructures have focused on simple shapes, such as spheres [10], cubes [11,12], octahedral [12], tetrahedral [13], decahedra [14], rod [15], wire [16], belts [17], and plates [18].…”