Light-responsive reversible solvation and precipitation of gold

Corinna Raimondo, Federica Reinders, Umut Soydaner, Marcel Mayor and Paolo Samorí, London (2010)

Photo-irradiation with visible and UV light can be used to reversibly trigger the precipitation and solvation, in organic media, of Au nanoparticles coated with a rigid-rod type azobenzene.

Partners : UdS and BASF

Place of Publication : London

Date of Publication : 2009/12/23

Additional Data : Chem. Commun., 2010, 46, 1147 - 1149

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