Organometallic control at the nanoscale: a new, one-pot method to decorate a magnetic nanoparticle surface with noble metal atoms

Nabil Atamena; Diana Ciuculescu; Gilles Alcaraz; Alevtina Smekhova; Fabrice Wilhelm; Andrei Rogalev; Bruno Chaudret; Pierre Lecante; Robert E Benfield; Catherine Amiens

doi:10.1039/b925054a

Organometallic control at the nanoscale: a new, one-pot method to decorate a magnetic nanoparticle surface with noble metal atoms

Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 Apr 14;46(14):2453-5. doi: 10.1039/b925054a. Epub 2010 Feb 1.

Authors

Nabil Atamena¹, Diana Ciuculescu, Gilles Alcaraz, Alevtina Smekhova, Fabrice Wilhelm, Andrei Rogalev, Bruno Chaudret, Pierre Lecante, Robert E Benfield, Catherine Amiens

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS, 205 route de Narbonne, Université de Toulouse, UPS, INPT, LCC, 31077 Toulouse, France.

PMID: 20309468
DOI: 10.1039/b925054a

Abstract

A novel cascade of reactions is designed to control in situ the deposition of noble metal islands (e.g. Rh) on top of nanoparticles of a 3d metal (e.g. Fe, Co).