@inbook{cfe65ab972fb462faa2b2fdd716afb9e,
title = "Gold Nanoclusters, Gold Nanoparticles, and Analytical Techniques for Their Characterization",
abstract = "Many reliable and reproducible methods exist for manufacturing gold nanoparticles with the desired and specific compositions, structures, arrangements, and physicochemical properties. In this report, we review the key principles guiding the formation and growth of nanoclusters, their evolution into nanoparticles, and the role and contribution of coatings. We describe a range of imaging methods for characterization of nanoparticles at atomic resolution and a range of spectroscopy methods for structural and physicochemical characterization of such nanoparticles. This chapter concludes with a short review of the emergent applications of nanoparticles in biosciences.",
keywords = "Amino acids, Ascorbic acid, Capping agents, Carboxy mercaptobenzoic acid, Citrate, Electron microscopy, Glutathione, Monosaccharides, Nanoclusters, Nanoparticles, Nanostructure, Physicochemical properties, Scanning transmission electron microscopy, Spectroscopy, Superatoms",
author = "Germ{\'a}n Plascencia-Villa and Rub{\'e}n Mendoza-Cruz and Lourdes Baz{\'a}n-D{\'i}az and Miguel Jos{\'e}-Yacam{\'a}n",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020.",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-1-0716-0319-2_26",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
publisher = "Humana Press Inc.",
pages = "351--382",
booktitle = "Methods in Molecular Biology",
}