Growth of Nanometric Gold Particles in Solution Phase

Seshadri, Ram and Subbanna, GN and Vijayakrishnan, V and Kulkarni, GU and Ananthakrishna, G and Rao, CNR (1995) Growth of Nanometric Gold Particles in Solution Phase. In: Journal of Physical Chemistry, 99 (15). pp. 5639-5644.

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Abstract

The time evolution of colloidal gold particles in the nanometric regime has been investigated by employing electron microscopy and electronic absorption spectroscopy. The particle size distributions are essentially Gaussian and show the same time dependence for both the mean and the standard deviation, enabling us to obtain a time-independent universal curve for the particle size. Temperature dependent studies show the growth to be an activated process with a barrier of about 18 kJ mol(-1). We present a phenomenological equation for the evolution of particle size and suggest that the growth process is stochastic.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Journal of Physical Chemistry
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Chemical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited:	31 May 2011 08:00
Last Modified:	31 May 2011 08:00
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/38020

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