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Pick your carats: nanoparticles of gold–silver–copper alloy produced in vivo

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Engineered gold nanoparticle catalysts containing a mixture of metals enable enhanced specificity and reactivity. We report the synthesis by plants of mixed metal nanoparticles suggesting the possibility of using plants to produce catalysts of specific composition, perhaps even those difficult to synthesise by traditional methods. The nanoparticles contain Au, Ag and Cu as an alloy. The structure and composition are confirmed by scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX).

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This study was supported in part by the US Airforce grant AOARD054068 and by The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology.

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  1. Institute of Technology and Engineering, Massey University, Palmerston North, 5331, New Zealand

    R. G. Haverkamp & A. T. Marshall

  2. Department of Chemicals Analytics and Physics, Microstructure Analysis and Atomic Spectrometry, Akzo Nobel Research and Technology Chemicals, P.O. Box 9300, 6800 SB, Arnhem, The Netherlands

    D. van Agterveld

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Haverkamp, R.G., Marshall, A.T. & van Agterveld, D. Pick your carats: nanoparticles of gold–silver–copper alloy produced in vivo . J Nanopart Res 9, 697–700 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-006-9198-y

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