Identification of a source of size polydispersity and its solution in Brust–Schiffrin metal nanoparticle synthesis?

Chemical Communications Pub Date: 2011-04-28 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11642H

Abstract

The co-presence of thiolvs.disulfide in the well-known Brust–Schiffrin two-phase synthesis has been identified as a source of size polydispersity in nanoparticles synthesized and a procedure has been proposed to address this long outstanding issue.

Graphical abstract: Identification of a source of size polydispersity and its solution in Brust–Schiffrin metal nanoparticle synthesis
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