Room-Temperature Turkevich Method: Formation of Gold Nanoparticles at the Speed of Mixing Using Cyclic Oxocarbon Reducing Agents
By Larm, Nathaniel E.; Essner, Jeremy B.; Pokpas, Keagan; Canon, James A.; Jahed, Nazeem; Iwuoha, Emmanuel I.; Baker, Gary A.
Published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
2018
Abstract
We demonstrate a facile and reproducible means of producing quasi-spherical, colloidally stable gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on the basis of rapid room-temperature mixing of aqueous solutions of HAuCl4 and a cyclic oxocarbon diacid (squaric acid, SA; croconic acid, CA; or rhodizonic acid, SR) or ascorbic acid (AA) as dual reducing and capping agent. Although these reducing agents generally produced larger particles than those derived from the classical Turkevich method (using citrate in boiling water) and achieved a lower nanoparticle size uniformity in our hands (i.e., 30.4
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