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Precipitation of gold nanoparticles on the quartz surface modified by titanium (IV) butoxide

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Gold nanoparticles have been precipitated on the surface of quartz slides covered with titanium (IV) butoxide. UV irradiation of modified quartz slides immersed into water solutions of hydrogen tetrachloroaurate of different concentrations (2.5 × 10−4–1.0 × 10−2 M) has been used for this purpose. Properties of produced samples have been investigated by UV–Vis spectroscopy, IR spectroscopy, SEM-EDX, TGA, and AFM. According to the obtained data, produced gold particles are distributed on modified quartz surface very uniformly and the average size of gold particles is about 30–50 nm.

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We gratefully acknowledge the help of Dr. Tim Kidd, and Andrew Simonson, University of Northern Iowa, USA.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Moika 48, 191186, St.-Petersburg, Russia

    Ivan Roslov & Tatiana Boitsova

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Northern Iowa, 1227 West 27th Street, Cedar Falls, IA, 50614, USA

    Duane Bartak

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Roslov, I., Boitsova, T. & Bartak, D. Precipitation of gold nanoparticles on the quartz surface modified by titanium (IV) butoxide. J Nanopart Res 12, 1479–1488 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-009-9719-6

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