UV-induced syntheses of surfactant-free precious metal nanoparticles in alkaline methanol and ethanol

Jonathan Quinson; Laura Kacenauskaite; Johanna Schröder; Søren B Simonsen; Luise Theil Kuhn; Tom Vosch; Matthias Arenz

doi:10.1039/d0na00218f

UV-induced syntheses of surfactant-free precious metal nanoparticles in alkaline methanol and ethanol

Nanoscale Adv. 2020 May 11;2(6):2288-2292. doi: 10.1039/d0na00218f. eCollection 2020 Jun 17.

Authors

Jonathan Quinson¹, Laura Kacenauskaite¹, Johanna Schröder², Søren B Simonsen³, Luise Theil Kuhn³, Tom Vosch¹, Matthias Arenz²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 5 2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark jonathan.quinson@chem.ku.dk.
² Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern Freiestrasse 3 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland.
³ Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark Fysikvej Bldg. 310 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby Denmark.

Abstract

Surfactant-free UV-induced syntheses of Pt and Ir nanoparticles in alkaline methanol and ethanol are presented. Small size nanoparticles ca. 2 nm in diameter are obtained without surfactants in a wide range of base concentration.