Purification Chemical Structure Electrical Property Relationship in Gold Nanoparticle Liquids

Published

August 1, 2010

Author(s)

Robert I. MacCuspie, Andrea M. Elsen, Steve J. Diamanti, Steve T. Patton, Igor Altfeder, J. D. Jacobs, Andrey A. Voevodin, Richard A. Vaia

Abstract

Macroscopic assemblies of nanoparticles are a new class of materials that exhibit unique properties compared to both bulk and isolated nanoparticle states. To more accurately probe the structure-property relationships of these materials, this report proposes a synthetic scheme which affords a high degree of control over the purity of each intermediate product. Rigorous purification and characterization at each step are key elements of this scheme, thereby increasing final product reproducibility for a wide range of amine-containing surface molecules. A range of tertiary and quaternary amines were used to successfully synthesize nanoparticle liquids from a range of gold nanoparticle starting materials, sized from 6 nm to 20 nm and initially coated with either citrate or dodecanethiol. The application of improved device performance in a RF-MEMS relay-switch was demonstrated by lifetime improvement of at least two orders of magnitude greater number of cycles before device failure.

Citation

Applied Organometallic Chemistry

Volume

24

Issue

8

Pub Type

Journals

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Keywords

Nanoparticle Liquids, Gold Nanoparticles, RF-MEMS Switch

Citation

MacCuspie, R. , Elsen, A. , Diamanti, S. , Patton, S. , Altfeder, I. , Jacobs, J. , Voevodin, A. and Vaia, R. (2010), Purification Chemical Structure Electrical Property Relationship in Gold Nanoparticle Liquids, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=903692 (Accessed October 10, 2025)