Gold(i)-silver(i)-calix[8]arene complexes, precursors of bimetallic alloyed Au-Ag nanoparticles

Marie Clément; Ibrahim Abdellah; Cyril Martini; Frédéric Fossard; Diana Dragoe; Hynd Remita; Vincent Huc; Isabelle Lampre

doi:10.1039/d0na00111b

Gold(i)-silver(i)-calix[8]arene complexes, precursors of bimetallic alloyed Au-Ag nanoparticles

Nanoscale Adv. 2020 May 6;2(7):2768-2773. doi: 10.1039/d0na00111b. eCollection 2020 Jul 14.

Authors

Marie Clément^{1

2}, Ibrahim Abdellah², Cyril Martini², Frédéric Fossard³, Diana Dragoe², Hynd Remita¹, Vincent Huc², Isabelle Lampre¹

Affiliations

¹ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000 91405 Orsay France Isabelle.lampre@universite-paris-saclay.fr.
² Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay, UMR 8182 91405 Orsay France.
³ Université Paris-Saclay, ONERA, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Etude des Microstructures 92322 Châtillon France.

Abstract

In this paper, we report the first synthesis and characterisations of bimetallic gold(i)-silver(i) calix[8]arene complexes. We show that the radiolytic reduction of these complexes leads to the formation of small bimetallic nanoparticles with an alloyed structure, as evidenced by XPS, HR-TEM and STEM/HAADF-EDX measurements.