Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2004, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (10): 1793.

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DC Conductivity of Au Nanoparticles in Organic Solvent

FANG Fang, WANG Ying, ZHANG Xiao-Yan, ZHANG Ya-Fei   

  1. Research Institute of Micro/Nanometer Science and Technology, Key Laboratory for Thin Film and Microfabrication Technology of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030, China
  • Received:2004-02-23 Online:2004-10-24 Published:2004-10-24

Abstract: Gold nanoparticles were chemically synthesized with a diameter of about 10 nm. Dodecanethiol, tetradecanethiol and hexadecanethiol were used to protect Au nanoparticles. Then Au nanoparticles/chloroform and Au nanoparticles/toluene suspensions were prepared. DC conductivity of different suspensions was investigated. The electrical conductivity of the samples increased with the increase of the concentration of Au nanoparticles, and a rapid increase in conductivity is observed when the concentration increased from a low value to a moderate value. The conductivity increases slowly when the concentration is larger than the moderate value. The moderate concentration values are11.22, 7.96 and 5.47 g/L in chloroform suspensions when Au nanoparticles were encapsulated by dodecanethiol, tetradecanethiol and hexadecanethiol, respectively. The conductivity for Au nanoparticles/chloroform suspension is higher than that for Au nanoparticles/toluene suspension in the whole concentration range.

Key words: Au nanoparticle, Conductivity, Chloroform, Toluene

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