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Immobilization of Gold–Aryl Nanoparticles Over Graphene Oxide Platforms: Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Calculations Study

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Graphene oxide (GO) was decorated with gold–aryl (Au–C) nanoparticles of AuNPs–COOH by sodium borohydride reduction of aryldiazonium tetrachloroaurate(III) salt at room temperature in aqueous solutions. Morphology of AuNPs–COOH/GO nanocomposite (NC) was probed using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), showing NC surface roughness and wrinkling. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) results suggest the clear reductive reaction of tetrachloroaurate anion into metallic gold in AuNPs–COOH/GO along with detailed interpretations of the nature of the functional groups. Brunauer–Emmett–Teller measurements supported GO anchoring by AuNPs modified with COOH; surface area dropped significantly. Molecular dynamics calculations endowed support of favorable wrinkling at the edges and carboxyl intercalation to GO surface of types π–π, hydrogen bonding, and hydrophobic interactions. Solvent accessible surface area calculations of GO showed a decrease in total surface area.

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Acknowledgements

MO acknowledges VEGA 02/0010/18 (Slovakia) for financial support. AAM acknowledges the University of Sharjah support of SEED grant (VC-GRC-SR-83-2015), competitive grants (160-2142-029-P and 150-2142-017-P), Organometallic Research Group grant (RISE-046-2016), and Functionalized Nanomaterials Synthesis Lab grant (151-0039). CH acknowledges the support of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (No. 2021R1A4A1032746) and (No. 2021R1A2C1093183).

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  1. Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, 27272, UAE

    Javad B. M. Parambath, Mahreen Arooj & Ahmed A. Mohamed

  2. Polymer Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 845 41, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Maria Omastova

  3. Univ Paris Est Creteil, CNRS, ICMPE, UMR7182, 94320, Thiais, France

    Mohamed M. Chehimi

  4. Program in Environmental & Polymer Engineering, Graduate School, INHA University, Incheon, 22212, Korea

    Sanghyun Kim & Changseok Han

  5. Department of Environmental Engineering, INHA University, Incheon, 22212, Korea

    Changseok Han

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Parambath, J.B.M., Arooj, M., Omastova, M. et al. Immobilization of Gold–Aryl Nanoparticles Over Graphene Oxide Platforms: Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Calculations Study. J Clust Sci 34, 577–586 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-022-02247-0

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