In Situ synthesis of self-assembled gold nanoparticles on glass or silicon substrates through reactive inkjet printing

Mutalifu Abulikemu; Eman Husni Da'as; Hanna Haverinen; Dongkyu Cha; Mohammad Azad Malik; Ghassan Elie Jabbour

doi:10.1002/anie.201308429

In Situ synthesis of self-assembled gold nanoparticles on glass or silicon substrates through reactive inkjet printing

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2014 Jan 7;53(2):420-3. doi: 10.1002/anie.201308429. Epub 2013 Dec 18.

Authors

Mutalifu Abulikemu¹, Eman Husni Da'as, Hanna Haverinen, Dongkyu Cha, Mohammad Azad Malik, Ghassan Elie Jabbour

Affiliation

¹ Materials Science and Engineering Department and Solar and Photovoltaic Engineering Research Centre, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 4700 Thuwal 23955-6900 (Saudi Arabia).

PMID: 24352872
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201308429

Abstract

A facile and low cost method for the synthesis of self-assembled nanoparticles (NPs) with minimal size variation and chemical waste by using reactive inkjet printing was developed. Gold NPs with diameters as small as (8±2) nm can be made at low temperature (120 °C). The size of the resulting NPs can be readily controlled through the concentration of the gold precursor and oleylamine ink. The pure gold composition of the synthesized NPs was confirmed by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS) analysis. High-resolution SEM (HRSEM) and TEM (HRTEM), and X-ray diffraction revealed their size and face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure, respectively. Owing to the high density of the NP film, UV/Vis spectroscopy showed a red shift in the intrinsic plasmonic resonance peak. We envision the extension of this approach to the synthesis of other nanomaterials and the production of tailored functional nanomaterials and devices.

Keywords: gold; inkjet printing; in situ synthesis; nanofabrication; nanoparticles.