Labion’s work on the synthesis of gold nanorods using hydroquinone has been described on the Atlas of science a freely available web repository that publish layman summaries of scientific articles. The summary reefers in particularly to the drastic reduction of CTAB need for the preparation of gold nanorods that can be achieved thanks to our research.

the complete summary is available at this link:

http://atlasofscience.org/gold-nanorods-using-less-ctab/

the original scientific articles are:

•  Picciolini S., Mehn D., Ojea-Jimènez I., Gramatica F., Morasso C. “Hydroquinone Based Synthesis of Gold Nanorods”  Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2016, (114), e54319, DOI: 10.3791/54319

• Morasso C; Picciolini S; Schiumarini D; Mehn D; Ojea-Jiménez I; Zanchetta G; Vanna R; Bedoni M; Prosperi D; Gramatica F ” Control of size and aspect ratio in hydroquinone-based synthesis of gold nanorods” Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 2015, 17 (8), 1-7. DOI:10.1007/s11051-015-3136-9