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Architecture-adapted raspberry-like gold@polyaniline particles: facile synthesis and catalytic activity

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A facile route was introduced to generate uniform raspberry-like gold@polyaniline (AuNP@PANI) particles in the presence of sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS). The surfactant SDS played an important role in both generating a uniform structure and stabilizing these particles. Upon addition of low-molecular weight organics, the regulation on the gold architecture was realized from a compact to stretched configuration owing to the change of surface tension and a possible swell process. The catalytic activity of the raspberry-like AuNP@PANI was investigated using the reduction of 4-nitrophenol by NaBH4 and electrocatalytic oxidation of glucose as model reactions. It was found that the AuNP@PANI particles with the most stretched architecture presented the highest catalytic activity owing to their largest contact surface to the reactants.

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The authors thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. 21103018) and Jilin Provincial Science and Technology Development Foundation (grant no. 201101010) for financial support.

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    Xiaobin Xu, Xianchun Liu & Shuangxi Xing

  2. College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, People’s Republic of China

    Qun Yu & Wei Wang

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Xu, X., Liu, X., Yu, Q. et al. Architecture-adapted raspberry-like gold@polyaniline particles: facile synthesis and catalytic activity. Colloid Polym Sci 290, 1759–1764 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-012-2715-x

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