Biomimetic strategies to produce catalytically reactive CuS nanodisks.

ABSTRACT: Copper sulfide materials have diverse applications from cancer therapy to environmental remediation due to their narrow bandgap and easily tuned plasmon. The synthesis of these materials often involves toxic reagents and harsh conditions where biomimetic methods may provide opportunities to produce these structures under sustainable conditions. To explore this capability, simple amino acids were exploited as biological ligands for the ambient synthesis of CuS materials. Using an aqueous-based approach, CuS nanodisks were prepared using acid-containing amino acid molecules that stabilize the materials against bulk aggregation. These structures were fully characterized by UV-vis analysis, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, atomic force microscopy, selected area elect

SUBMITTER: Bell EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9418022 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature