Abstract

We introduce a new example of the in situ preparation and fabrication of stable gold nanoparticles on silica in an aqueous medium, by using only lipid-grafted silica particles in HAuCl4 solution without addition of any external reducing agent. The lipid-grafted silica particles have been synthesized by graft-to methodology and characterized by elemental analysis, thermogravimetric analysis and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy. The metamaterial particles show high catalytic activity for the reduction of p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol.

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