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Polyethyleneimine-oleic acid micelle-stabilized gold nanoparticles for reduction of 4-nitrophenol with enhanced performance

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Noble metal nanoparticles have been drawing great attention for the treatment of water pollutants. The catalytic activity of noble metal nanoparticles is usually reduced due to their aggregation. Amphiphilic molecule micelles have potential to stabilize the noble nanoparticles against aggregation. In this study, a novel facile method was reported for preparing polyethyleneimine-oleic acid (PEI-oleic acid) micelle-stabilized gold nanoparticles (PO-AuNPsn), where the gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were embedded in the shell area of micelles. When the molar ratio of [N] to [Au] was 50, 100, and 200, the mean diameter of AuNPs was 3.52 ± 0.42, 3.11 ± 0.28, and 2.85 ± 0.48 nm, respectively. The corresponding zeta potential of the PO-AuNPsn was determined to be 26.2, 28.9 and 35.7 mV, respectively. Furthermore, PO-AuNPsn remained stable in aqueous solution at room temperature for more than 1 month. More importantly, PO-AuNPsn had higher catalytic activity for 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) reduction in aqueous solution compared with previous reports, where PO-AuNPs200 showed a Knor value of 9367 s−1 g−1. It is believed that PO-AuNPsn showed high catalytic activity because of their small size, high stability, and the location of AuNPs in the shell area, which made it easier for AuNPs to contact with 4-NP. The method described in this report represents a new method to prepare small and stable noble metal nanoparticles for catalytic applications in the future.

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The authors appreciate financial support from Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (B2017203229), Youth Foundation Project supported by the Hebei Education Department of China (QN2015034), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M601284), the national development project on key basic research (973 Project, 2015CB655303), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (21474085, 21674092), and Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (1808085ME143).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Applied Chemistry, College of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Longgang Wang, Xuan Zhang, Yanshuai Cui, Xiaolei Guo, Dawei Gao & Jianxin Kang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Longgang Wang & Yanshuai Cui

  3. Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Shengfu Chen & Haotian Sun

  4. Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering, School of Medical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230009, China

    Qinghua Yang

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Wang, L., Zhang, X., Cui, Y. et al. Polyethyleneimine-oleic acid micelle-stabilized gold nanoparticles for reduction of 4-nitrophenol with enhanced performance. Transit Met Chem 45, 31–39 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11243-019-00353-z

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