@article{LiebigHenningSarhanetal.2018,
  author    = {Liebig, Ferenc and Henning, Ricky and Sarhan, Radwan Mohamed and Prietzel, Claudia Christina and Bargheer, Matias and Koetz, Joachim},
  title     = {A new route to gold nanoflowers},
  series = {Nanotechnology},
  volume    = {29},
  journal   = {Nanotechnology},
  number    = {18},
  publisher = {IOP Publ. Ltd.},
  address   = {Bristol},
  issn      = {0957-4484},
  doi       = {10.1088/1361-6528/aaaffd},
  pages     = {8},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Catanionic vesicles spontaneously formed by mixing the anionic surfactant bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulfosuccinate sodium salt with the cationic surfactant cetyltrimethylammonium bromide were used as a reducing medium to produce gold clusters, which are embedded and well-ordered into the template phase. The gold clusters can be used as seeds in the growth process that follows by adding ascorbic acid as a mild reducing component. When the ascorbic acid was added very slowly in an ice bath round-edged gold nanoflowers were produced. When the same experiments were performed at room temperature in the presence of Ag+ ions, sharp-edged nanoflowers could be synthesized. The mechanism of nanoparticle formation can be understood to be a non-diffusion-limited Ostwald ripening process of preordered gold nanoparticles embedded in catanionic vesicle fragments. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering experiments show an excellent enhancement factor of 1.7 . 10(5) for the nanoflowers deposited on a silicon wafer.},
  language  = {en}
}