Growing Gold Nanostars on 3D Hydrogel Surfaces

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00564
• Publication Date: 2024-05-06T23:42:00Z
• Authors: Gail A. Vinnacomb...; Clara García-Astrain; Lara Troncoso-Afonso; Marita Wagner; Judith Langer; Patricia González...; Desirè Di Silvio; Luis M. Liz-Marzán

Nanocomposites comprising hydrogels and plasmonic nanoparticles are attractive materials for tissue engineering, bioimaging, biosensing. These usually fabricated by adding colloidal to the uncured polymer mixture thus require time-consuming presynthesis, purification, ligand-exchange steps. Herein, we introduce approaches rapid synthesis of gold nanostars (AuNSt)