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Nanoscale. 2015 Sep 07;7(33):14039-46. doi: 10.1039/c5nr03113c.

Magnetic gold nanotriangles by microwave-assisted polyol synthesis.

Nanoscale

Siming Yu, Jordan A Hachtel, Matthew F Chisholm, Sokrates T Pantelides, Anna Laromaine, Anna Roig, Hone, Jarden, Schofield

Affiliations

  1. Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Catalunya, E-08193 Spain. [email protected] [email protected].

PMID: 26238965 DOI: 10.1039/c5nr03113c

Abstract

Simple approaches to synthesize hybrid nanoparticles with magnetic and plasmonic functionalities, with high control of their shape and avoiding cytotoxic reactants, to target biomedical applications remain a huge challenge. Here, we report a facile, fast and bio-friendly microwave-assisted polyol route for the synthesis of a complex multi-material consisting of monodisperse gold nanotriangles around 280 nm in size uniformly decorated by superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles of 5 nm. These nanotriangles are readily dispersible in water, display a strong magnetic response (10 wt% magnetic fraction) and exhibit a localized surface plasmon resonance band in the NIR region (800 nm). Moreover, these hybrid particles can be easily self-assembled at the liquid-air interfaces.

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