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In the experiments, fluorescence signals cannot only be enhanced by GNPs but can also be absorbed. Therefore, the absorption efficiency of GNPs was considered in this study. As an example. Figure 8.13 shows the absorption efficiency of plane waves by a gold spherical nanoparticle with diameter of 20 nm in water ( .=1.33) as a function of illuminating wavelength. 

Jose, B., Steffen, R., Neugebauer, U., Sheridan, E., Marthi, R., Forster, R.J., and Keyes, T.E. (2009) Emission enhancement within gold spherical nanocavity arrays. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 11, 10923-10933. 

Successive steps for the fabrication of gold spherical UMEs from these preformed structures are summarized graphically in Figure 6.3.7.5. 

Previously reported studies of gold spherical UMEs prepared by self-assembly of gold nanoparticles (17) show similar behavior (see Section 6.3.7). 

Demaille, C. Gold spherical microelectrodes. In Handbook of Electrochemistry, C. G. Zoski (ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2006, pp. 230-235. 

STM and AFM profiles distort the shape of a particle because the side of the tip rides up on the particle. This effect can be corrected for. Consider, say, a spherical gold particle on a smooth surface. The sphere may be truncated, that is, the center may be a distance q above the surface, where q < r, the radius of the sphere. Assume the tip to be a cone of cone angle a. The observed profile in the vertical plane containing the center of the sphere will be a rounded hump of base width 2d and height h. Calculate q and r for the case where a - 32° and d and h are 275 nm and 300 nm, respectively. Note Chapter XVI, Ref. 133a. Can you show how to obtain the relevent equation ... 

But even the value of the second coefficient b2 is less determined. In different theoretical papers the values from 4.4 to 14.1 are encountered, though, probably, the most reliable value for spherical particles was given by Gut — Gold b2 = 14.1. As regards the higher terms of the series, they are still less determined. 

High nuclearity clusters [Au(AuPR3) ]JC+ with central gold atoms adopt two types of structure those with 12n + 18 electrons have essentially spherical structures, whereas those with 12n + 16 electrons have the peripheral atoms on the surface of a toroid. 

Spherical vaterite crystals were obtained with 4-mercaptobenzoic acid protected gold nanoparticles as the nucleation template by the carbonate diffusion method [51]. The crystallization of calcium carbonate in the absence of the 4-MBA capped gold nanoparticles resulted in calcite crystals. This indicates that the polymorphs of CaCOj were controlled by the acid-terminated gold nanoparticles. This result indicates that the rigid carboxylic acid structures can play a role in initiating the nucleation of vaterite as in the case of the G4.5 PAMAM dendrimer described above. 

Wang, J.L., Jellinek, J., Zhao, J., Chen, Z.F., King, R.B. and Schleyer, P.V. (2005) Hollow Cages versus Space-Filling Structures for Medium-Sized Gold Clusters The Spherical Aromaticity of the Au o Cage. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109, 9265-9269. 

Kuhn et al. observed the fluorescence enhancement and fluorescence decay rate of a single terrylene molecule when a spherical gold nanoparticle was approached to the... 

Molecular-dynamics simulations also showed that spherical gold clusters is stable in the form of FCC crystal structure in a size range of = 13-555 [191]. This is more likely a key factor in developing extremely high catalytic activity on reducible Ti02 as a support material. Thus, it controls the electronic structure of Au nanoparticles (e.g. band gap and BE shift of Au 4f7/2 band) and thereby the catalytic activity. 

The UPS indicated structure change is associated with size reduction as the discontinuous gold film is transformed into rod-shape and spherical particles with size of 5-10 nm. Accordingly, with size reduction the activity displayed in CO oxidation is also altered the rate increased from 6.7 X 10 to 2 X 10 molmin cm . Consequently, not only the gold-reducible oxide interaction is responsible for the increased activity, but also size reduction. Indeed, small clusters themselves are able to activate the reaction components shown by theoretical calculations performed for 10-15-atom clusters, which can activate easily oxygen [177,200], but in real catalyst, even at the smallest active ensemble, it consists of a few hundreds atoms. 

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