Colloidal Gold Essay

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Synthesis of Colloidal Gold. This is one of the most effective methods of producing gold nanoparticles which was founded by Eah group. In this method we reduce HAuCl4 and NaBH4 to generate gold nanoparticles in water. The easiness of this method is that the final gold particles can be easily tunneled from 3.2 to 5.2 nm. We will look at the synthesis of colloidal gold in water and then coating our particle with DDT by this method on a small scale. First the aqueous solution of 50 mM (mill molar) gold chloride anions was made by dissolving HAuCl4.3H20 with the same molar amount of HCL which will stabilize the anions for several months. In another solution we will prepare 50 mM of borohydride anions by dissolving NaBH4 granules with the same molar amount of NaOH, which will also stabilize our borohydride ions for several months. Now to prepare nanoparticles of size 3.2 nm we will add 100 uL of AuCl4 -/H+ solution in a small amount of water (test-tube size) and later injected the BH4-/OH- ions that we prepared into the same test tube. Now stir the mixture to form uniform mixing. We will control the total weight to 10g, so that we can get the concentration of gold ions to be 0.5 mM. The solution changed color from light yellow to orange immediately, and then to red while the vial was stirred for 1 min to release hydrogen gas molecules. We can for gold nanoparticles of other size by changing the amount of our anions. After preparing the solution we will consider the phase transfer to hexane by simply adding the DDT Molecules. In this experiment we will add 5g of acetone to 10g of aqueous solution that we just prepared and mixed it for 1s and then add 5g of hexane with 1.0 umol of DDT. After shaking the whole mixture thoroughly we will get a colorless phase of water acetone molecule and the hexane phase turns dark. The good thing about this method is that we don’t need

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