Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2019,10, 718–724, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.71
using the methods reported here.
Keywords: catalyst; ionic liquid; methylene blue; platinum; semiconductornanorod; Introduction
Core@shell semiconductor nanorods with attached noble metal particles have been widely studied as photocatalysts, and any improvement on the synthesis of these materials has
be used to deposit nanoscopic noble metal particles onto a well-defined semiconductornanorod substrate with diameters less than 10 nm. We found that photodeposition of platinum onto CdSe@CdS (core@shell) nanorods proceeded readily from Pt(acac)2 in the ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis
is attributed to the fact that the semiconductornanorod substrate was still capped with insulating organic ligands in both samples. The methods reported herein could be used to achieve a multistep synthesis of metal-decorated core@shell particles using only ionic liquids to determine if the