Rifat Kamarudheen

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Can anyone help me on how to redisperse COOH-PEGylated Au nanoparticles in Ethylene glycol?

I am interested in performing Fischer-esterification of COOH- terminated PEGylated gold nanoparticles and ethylene glycol, to study the self-assembly of nanoparticles. For this, I have managed to...

03 January 2017 7,769 2 View

Can anyone please suggest slow coupling agents for amide formation with deprotonated carboxylic acids?

Hi I am looking for a way to synthesize amide functionalized gold nanoparticles from mercaptocarboxylic acid functionalized gold nanoparticles. In order to keep these particles stable, the surface...

10 October 2016 6,164 1 View

How to model the interaction time of transiently formed dimer nano-particles (in liquid), w.r.t Brownian motion?

Nanoparticles dispersed in liquid are known to undergo Brownian motion. I feel that from time to time, two individual nanoparticles can come close enough to spaces of 1-3 nm and form transient...

28 September 2016 6,620 3 View

Can someone please help me on the functionalization of CTAB/citrate capped 40 nm gold spheres with mercaptocarboxylic acid groups?

I tried the round trip exchange method (by first exchanging the CTAB with dodecanethiol and further by mercaptoundecanoic acid), but my particles aggregated. The direct addition of...

21 June 2016 964 3 View