TY - JOUR A1 - Fenger, A. A1 - Fertitta, E. A1 - Kirmse, H. A1 - Thünemann, Andreas A1 - Rademann, K. T1 - Size dependent catalysis with CTAB-stabilized gold nanoparticles N2 - CTAB-stabilized gold nanoparticles were synthesized by applying the seeding-growth approach in order to gain information about the size dependence of the catalytic reduction of p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol with sodium borohydride. Five different colloidal solutions of stabilized gold nanoparticles have been characterized by TEM, AFM, UV-Vis, SAXS, and DLS for their particle size distributions. Gold nanoparticles (mean sizes: 3.5, 10, 13, 28, 56 nm diameter) were tested for their catalytic efficiency. Kinetic data were acquired by UV-Vis spectroscopy at different temperatures between 25 and 45 °C. By studying the p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol reaction kinetics we determined the nanoparticle size which is needed to gain the fastest conversion under ambient conditions in the liquid phase. Unexpectedly, CTAB-stabilized gold nanoparticles with a diameter of 13 nm are most efficient. KW - Nanoparticle KW - Small-angle X-ray scattering KW - SAXS PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c2cp40792b SN - 1463-9076 SN - 1463-9084 VL - 14 IS - 26 SP - 9343 EP - 9349 PB - The Royal Soc. of Chemistry CY - Cambridge AN - OPUS4-26071 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -