Thathan Premkumar

The inherent size and hollow geometry with extraordinary electronic and optical properties make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) promising building blocks for molecular or nanoscale devices. Unfortunately, their hydrophobic nature and their existence in the form of agglomerated and parallel bundles make this interesting material inadequately soluble or dispersible in most of the common solvents, which is crucial to their processing. Therefore, various ingenious techniques have been reported to disperse t

Silver nanoparticles made easy: A simple, effective, and one-pot method toward the synthesis of a defined macrocycle-silver nanoparticle system in water has been described (see figure). Interestingly, cucurbituril (CB)[7]-protected AgNPs showed significantly increased cytotoxicity against MCF-7 and NCI-H358 cancer cells, as demonstrated by models in vitro.

Herein, we report a facile, one-pot, green, and solvent-less (solid-state) mechanochemical approach toward the synthesis of eco-friendly polyurethanes (PUs) at room temperature using biomass-derived 2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)furan (BHMF) combined with vibration milling. This approach is simple, straightforward, and very fast even at room temperature because of the instantaneous energy generated during grinding. BHMF, a biomass-derived monomer, was successfully used to synthesize PUs via ball milling

Uniform cupric oxide nanoparticles have been prepared for the first time via a novel supramolecular complex (see image, left) by thermal decomposition, in which cucurbit[7]uril was selected to encapsulate copper acetate, which acts as the precursor for the CuO nanoparticles (right). The procedure affords particles with a narrow size distribution and of very small diameter (≈5 nm). Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2296/2006/

Abstract The preparation of metal nanoparticles generally requires the use of mostly toxic reducing agents according to state‐of‐the‐art procedures. Here, we report that polysorbate 80, a polymeric nonionic surfactant, when reacted with a gold salt in water at room temperature, yields well‐dispersed gold nanoparticles. Furthermore, we could control the particle size by simply altering concentration or temperature. The synthetic procedure presented here is easy, inexpensive, straightforward, and

A simple, green, one-pot synthesis of gold nanoparticles was achieved through the reaction of an aqueous mixture of potassium tetrachloroaurate(III) and the macrocycle cucurbit[7]uril in the presence of sodium hydroxide at room temperature without introducing any kind of traditional reducing agents and/or external energy. The as-prepared gold nanoparticles showed catalytic activity for the reduction reaction of 4-nitrophenol in the presence of NaBH(4), which has been established by visual inspec

We report a facile, one-pot, shape-selective synthesis of gold nanoparticles in high yield by the reaction of an aqueous potassium tetrachloroaurate(III) solution with a commercially available detergent. We prove that a commercial detergent can act as a reducing as well as stabilizing agent for the synthesis of differently shaped gold nanoparticles in an aqueous solution at an ambient condition. It is noteworthy that the gold nanoparticles with different shapes can be prepared by simply changing

A simple and one-pot approach to synthesise silver nanostructures of different sizes and shapes in aqueous medium at room temperature is reported. The reduction of the silver salt and the stabilization of the as-prepared silver nanostructures are achieved using a macrocycle, the unmodified β-cyclodextrin, under alkaline conditions at room temperature. This green approach, which utilizes water as a benign solvent and the non-toxic and biocompatible β-cyclodextrin as both the reducing and the prot