Method for preparing gold crystals by adopting surface active agent molecule C18N3

• Main Authors: LU WENSHENG, JIANG LONG, CUI WENJUAN, LIN GUANHUA
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 25.07.2012
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT OF SINGLE CRYSTALS OR A HOMOGENEOUSPOLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITH DEFINED STRUCTURE; APPARATUS THEREFOR; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL GROWTH; METALLURGY; PRODUCTION OF A HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; REFINING BY ZONE-MELTING OF MATERIAL; SINGLE CRYSTALS OR HOMOGENEOUS POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIAL WITHDEFINED STRUCTURE; SINGLE-CRYSTAL-GROWTH; UNIDIRECTIONAL SOLIDIFICATION OF EUTECTIC MATERIAL ORUNIDIRECTIONAL DEMIXING OF EUTECTOID MATERIAL

The invention relates to a method for preparing gold crystals from nanometer to micrometer by adopting surface active agent molecule C18N3 as reducing agent and protecting agent. The surface active agent molecule C18N3 is not only adopted as the reducing agent to reduce chloroauric acid and obtain crystal nucleus, but also used as a sort of good protecting agent to facilitate the shape control and the growth of the metal crystals. Compared with the conventional method, the surface active agent molecule C18N3 is adopted in hydrothermal method applied in the invention to prepare the metal crystals, the prepared metal crystals have better shape controllability. By simply adjusting the molar ratio between the surface active agent molecule C18N3 and the chloroauric acid as well as the concentration of chloride in the solution, the metal crystals with different shapes can be prepared, including sphere, decahedron, plane triangle, plane pentagon and plane hexagon and two-dimension sheet shape.