Click Chemistry (IMAGE)

Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Click Chemistry

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This is a pictorial representation of the main idea of click chemistry used at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, to bond gold nanoparticles to a carbon substrate. Nitrogen "snap fasteners" in the carbon substrate (emerging palms) bind chemically with the carbon "snap fasteners" on modified gold nanoparticles (here shown as a balloons).

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IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski

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