Radiation induced synthesis of silver nanoshells formed onto organic micelles

S. Remita; P. Fontaine; C. Rochas; F. Muller; M. Goldmann

doi:10.1140/epjd/e2005-00149-x

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Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics

Eur. Phys. J. D 34, 231-233 (2005)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2005-00149-x

Radiation induced synthesis of silver nanoshells formed onto organic micelles

S. Remita¹^,2^a, P. Fontaine²^,3, C. Rochas⁴, F. Muller³ and M. Goldmann²^,3

¹ Laboratoire de Chimie et Biochimie Pharmacologiques et Toxicologiques (CNRS Université Paris 5, UMR 8601), Université Paris 5, 45 rue des Saint-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
² Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (CNRS, Université Paris 6 et 7, UMR 7588), Université Paris 6 et 7, Campus Boucicaut, 140 rue de Lourmel, 75015 Paris, France
³ Laboratoire pour l' Utilisation du Rayonnement Electromagnétique (CNRS-CEA-MDR, UMR 130), Centre Universitaire Paris Sud, B.P. 34, 91898 Orsay Cedex, France
⁴ Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique (UJF-CNRS-INPG, UMR 5588), 140 avenue de la Physique, B.P. 87, 38401 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex, France and ESRF, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, BP 220, 38043 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

Corresponding author: ^a samy.remita@univ-paris5.fr

Received: 6 September 2004
Published online: 13 July 2005

Abstract

Synthesis of metal nanoshells around organic micelles is achieved through radiolysis of aqueous solutions of surfactant self-assembled in spherical micelles and metal ions. The formation of the metal nanoshells is evidenced by UV-visible spectroscopy and Small Angle X-ray Scattering.

PACS: 81.07.-b – Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization / 61.10.Eq – X-ray scattering (including small-angle scattering) / 82.50.Kx – Processes caused by X-rays or gamma-rays / 82.70.Uv – Surfactants, micellar solutions, vesicles, lamellae, amphiphilic systems, (hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions)

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