The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future
technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their …

In this study, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were synthesized using the Turkevich method. This
article explains the didactic step-by-step synthesis, showing pictures of the entire process …

In the past few decades, much effort was put into the development of synthetic strategies to
produce nanoparticles of different sizes and morphologies and a large number of scientific …

Nanoparticle research has received considerable attention due to many potential innovative
applications such as biomedicine, 1, 2 catalysis, 3, 4 fuel cell, 5 magnetic data storage, 6 …

1. INTRODUCTION Detection of chemical and biological agents plays a fundamental role in
biomedical, forensic and environmental sciences 1− 4 as well as in anti bioterrorism …

This contribution provides a comprehensive mechanistic picture of the gold nanoparticle
synthesis by citrate reduction of HAuCl4, known as Turkevich method, by addressing five …

Gold nanoparticles have been used in biomedical applications since their first colloidal
syntheses more than three centuries ago. However, over the past two decades, their …

Gold nanoparticles have excellent optical and plasmon properties and have enormous
research potential when they combine with different ligands. Functionalized gold …

General principles and recent developments in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)
are reviewed. The “in situ” Turkevich-Frens and Brust-Schiffrin methods are still major …