Synthesis, Characterization, and Functionalization of Hybrid Au/CdS and Au/ZnS Core/Shell NanoparticlesAndrew Tobias 1, Song Qing 2, Marcus Jones 1
1Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2Nanosys Inc.
The synthesis of uniform gold nanoparticles coated with semiconductor shells of CdS or ZnS is performed. The semiconductor coating is conducted by first depositing a silver sulfide shell and exchanging the silver cations for zinc or cadmium cations.