Abstract
Galvanic reduction (GR) is a classic reaction. In simple terms, metals can reduce less reactive (or more noble) metal ions, while the opposite--metals reduce more reactive (or less noble) metal ions--should not occur. However, recently we found that anti-galvanic reduction (AGR) occurred to thiolated gold and silver nanoparticles. However, the essential issue whether the occurrence of AGR requires the assistance of reductive thiolate ligands or not still remained unanswered. In this work, by using a novel protocol (chemical reduction and physical ablation), we synthesized surfactant- and ligand-free gold nanoparticles. We found that these as-prepared nanoparticles can reduce silver ions and copper ions, thus illustrating that AGR is not dependent on reductive ligands. Further experiments demonstrated that AGR is applicable to other metal (such as Pt and Pd) nanoparticles and that the AGR process is size-dependent. Finally, it was found that the Raman scattering signals of Rhodamine 6G are distinctly enhanced on the gold nanoparticles that had been reacted with silver ions, which indicates the use of AGR for tuning the property of nanoparticles.
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