Room-Temperature Synthesis of Thioether-Stabilized Ruthenium Nanocubes and Their Optical Properties.

ABSTRACT: Controlling the nucleation and growth processes for nanoparticle synthesis allows the development of well-defined structures that offer unique chemical and physical properties. Here, we report a wet chemical reduction method for synthesizing ruthenium nanocubes (Ru NCs) that display plasmonic properties at room temperature (RT). The growth of the particles to form nanostructured cubes was established by varying the carbon chain length of the thioether stabilizing ligands and the reaction time to produce stable and controlled growth. In this study, we found that the longer the thioether chain length, the less isotropic the shape of the particles. Short chain lengths of thioethers (ethyl sulfide and butyl sulfide) produced spherical nanoparticles, whereas longer chain lengths (hexyl sulfide

SUBMITTER: Adams CP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9948292 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature