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Nguyen DTH, Salek S, Shultz-Johnson LR, Bélanger-Bouliga M, Jurca T, Byers JC, Nazemi A. Poly(N-Heterocyclic Carbene)-Capped Alloy and Core-Shell AuAg Bimetallic Nanoparticles. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024:e202409800. [PMID: 38887177 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202409800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2024] [Accepted: 06/17/2024] [Indexed: 06/20/2024]
Abstract
N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-stabilized metal nanoparticles (NPs) have recently attracted considerable attention. While most efforts in the field have been devoted to the development of NHC-tethered monometallic NPs and enhancing their stabilities under various conditions, their bimetallic counterparts are rare in the literature. Herein, we demonstrate that the covalent immobilization of Au and Ag atoms on polymerized NHCs is a powerful method to access bimetallic AuAg NPs. In addition, we show that while AuAg alloy NPs are often obtained via this method, the use of bimetallic polymeric substrates with lower Ag content, relative to Au, results in the formation of core-shell NPs with Au core and Ag shell. Application of these nanomaterials for oxygen reduction reaction is demonstrated with all materials exhibiting electrocatalytic activity. This work demonstrates for the first time that while bimetallic poly(NHC-metal)s are viable substrates to access NHC-stabilized bimetallic NPs, careful adjustment of metal content in the polymeric substrates can finetune the microstructure of the resulting NPs, i.e. alloy vs. core-shell.
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Affiliation(s)
- Diep T H Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, NanoQAM, Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM), C.P.8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, NanoQAM, Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM), C.P.8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Renewable Energy and Chemical Transformation Faculty Cluster, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, 32816, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, NanoQAM, Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM), C.P.8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Renewable Energy and Chemical Transformation Faculty Cluster, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, 32816, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, NanoQAM, Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM), C.P.8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, Université du Québec à Montréal, NanoQAM, Quebec Center for Advanced Materials (QCAM), C.P.8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada
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Nguyen DTH, Shultz LR, Jurca T, Nazemi A. Monomeric and Polymeric Mesoionic N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Tethered Silver Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Stability, and Catalytic Activity. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:3204-3215. [PMID: 36821834 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c02864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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In recent years, N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have garnered significant attention as promising alternatives to thiols to stabilize metallic nanoparticles and planar surfaces. While most studies thus far have focused on NHC-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), as an ideal platform to investigate the role of NHCs in stabilizing such nanoparticles, their ability to protect more unstable coinage metal nanoparticles, such as silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), has been largely overlooked. This is despite the fact that AgNPs possess a much more sensitive optical response that, upon their enhanced stability, can broaden their scope of application in various fields, including nanomedicine and catalysis. In this study, the synthesis and use of monomeric and polymeric mesoionic NHC-Ag(I) complexes as precursors to mono- and multidentate NHC-tethered AgNPs are reported. The polymeric analog was obtained by first synthesizing a polymer, containing 1,2,3-triazole repeat units, employing the copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition click polymerization of monomers containing diazide- and dialkyne functional groups. Subsequent quaternization of the triazole moieties and Ag insertion yielded the target NHC-Ag-containing polymer. Using this polymer as well as its monomeric analog as substrates, AgNPs with either catenated networks of NHCs or monomeric NHCs were fabricated by their reduction using borane-tert-butylamine complex. Our stability studies demonstrate that while monomeric NHCs impart some degree of stability to AgNPs, particularly at elevated temperatures in aqueous as well as organic medium, their polymeric analogs further enhance their stability in acidic environment (pH = 2) and against glutathione (3 mM), as an example of a biologically relevant thiol, in aqueous media. To highlight the application of these NHC-functionalized AgNPs in catalysis, we explore the aqueous phase reduction of methyl orange and 4-nitrophenol.
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Affiliation(s)
- Diep Thi Hong Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry, NanoQAM, Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P.8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States
- Renewable Energy and Chemical Transformation Faculty Cluster, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, NanoQAM, Quebec Centre for Advanced Materials, Université du Québec à Montréal, C.P.8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3P8, Canada
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Kaur G, Thimes RL, Camden JP, Jenkins DM. Fundamentals and applications of N-heterocyclic carbene functionalized gold surfaces and nanoparticles. Chem Commun (Camb) 2022; 58:13188-13197. [DOI: 10.1039/d2cc05183d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Improved stability and higher degree of synthetic tunability has allowed N-heterocyclic carbenes to supplant thiols as ligands for gold surface functionalization. This review article summarizes the basic science and applications of NHCs on gold.
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- Gurkiran Kaur
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 46556, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
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