Multimetallic nanoparticles and methods of making thereof
AssigneeBoard of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
InventorKunlun Ding
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Abstract
The present invention relates in part to a method of fabricating multimetallic nanoparticles, the method comprising the steps of providing a substrate; activating the substrate surface; adsorbing a cationic transition metal complex onto the substrate surface to form a substrate-supported cationic transition metal complex; adsorbing an anionic transition metal complex onto the substrate-supported cationic transition metal complex to form a substrate-supported multimetallic complex salt; and reducing the substrate-supported multimetallic complex salt to provide a plurality of multimetallic nanoparticles. The invention also relates in part to a composition of multimetallic nanoparticles comprising at least two metals Ma and Mb; wherein the ratio of Ma to Mb is between about 2:1 and about 1:2.
Claims14
A method of fabricating multimetallic nanoparticles, the method comprising:
- providing a substrate;
- activating the substrate surface;
- adsorbing a cationic transition metal complex onto the substrate surface to form a substrate-supported cationic transition metal complex;
- adsorbing an anionic transition metal complex onto the substrate-supported cationic transition metal complex to form a substrate-supported multimetallic complex salt;
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- reducing the substrate-supported multimetallic complex salt to provide a plurality of multimetallic nanoparticles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.