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This paper describes the preparation, by a novel and simple method, and the thermal stability of gold nanowires within monolithic mesoporous silica, involving soaking monolithic mesoporous silica in HAuCl4 aqueous solution, followed by drying and subsequent step-annealing. It has been shown that reduction of Au3+ within silica pores can occur during the drying process at 80 °C without any special reduction treatment. After initial annealing at 300 °C, Au nanowires are formed within the pores and are stable at temperatures up to 500 °C. Increasing the annealing temperature leads to a wire-to-rod-to-sphere morphological transformation of the Au nanowires. The surface-mediated reducing groups (-OH) on the silica pore are responsible for the low-temperature reduction of Au3+ ions, and the formation of Au nanowires is attributed to the uni-directional diffusion of Au atoms and the confinement of the pore channels. Spheroidization and breaking at some defects in the Au nanowires during annealing at elevated temperature result in the wire-to-rod-to-sphere transformation, accompanied by a blue-shift of the surface plasmon resonance over a very wide region in the optical spectrum.
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Kan, C., Cai, W., Fu, G. et al. Synthesis and thermal stability of gold nanowires within monolithic mesoporous silica. Appl. Phys. A 78, 1187–1191 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-003-2202-9
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