Synthesis of size tunable gold nanoparticles polymeric hybrid based on molecular nanocages

Desuo Zhang; Jiaqing Xiong; Chenmei Li; Yan Zhang; Guoyang W. Toh; Hong Lin; Yuyue Chen

Synthesis of size tunable gold nanoparticles polymeric hybrid based on molecular nanocages

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Author(s): Desuo Zhang ^{1, 2} ; Jiaqing Xiong ¹ ; Chenmei Li ¹ ; Yan Zhang ¹ ; Guoyang W. Toh ² ; Hong Lin ¹ ; Yuyue Chen ¹
- Affiliations: 1: National Engineering Laboratory for Modern Silk, College of Textile and Clothing Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China;
  2: Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
Source: Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2014, p. 235 – 238
DOI: 10.1049/mnl.2013.0728 , Online ISSN 1750-0443

Received 15/12/2013, Accepted 03/03/2014, Published 25/03/2014

A gold nanoparticles (NPs) polymeric hybrid was prepared through the reaction between HAuCl₄ and polyamide network polymer (PNP). The PNP has three-dimensional ‘nanocage’ structures and reactive amino groups incorporated in the molecular cages, so that the gold NPs can be in situ synthesised and fixed in the molecular nanocages. Owing to the volume confinement effect and the protection of the molecular nanocages, the size and the stability of the gold NPs can be controlled in a better manner. In addition, the size of the gold NPs can be tuned by changing the quantity of the precursor of the gold NPs encapsuled in the cages. Through this strategy, gold NPs with average diameters at 13.32, 11.41, 6.25 and 3.23 nm, were synthesised. These size tunable gold NPs polymeric hybrids may have a wide range of applications in many fields such as biomedicine, catalysis and optoelectronics.

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