Composition of the mixture used in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles
Sample
GA extract (mL)
0.1 mM HAuCl4 (mL)
0.5 M NaOH (L)
Final pH
Colour after heating
A
1
0.5
100
8.7
Purple
B
1
1.5
100
8.7
Purple
C
1
2.0
100
8.7
Purple
Declarations
Acknowledgments
Ms. Fatima AlHannan, the laboratory manager is thanked for her help in the procurement of materials.
Author contributions
ATA and OSE equally contributed to: Investigation, Writing—original draft. DAK: Investigation. GRD: Data curation, Writing—review & editing. SA: Conceptualization, Data curation. FZH: Conceptualization, Validation, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.
Conflicts of interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
Ethical approval
Not applicable.
Consent to participate
Not applicable.
Consent to publication
Not applicable.
Availability of data and materials
The raw data of absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy and Origin files are available with the corresponding author.
Funding
Financial support through Research Summer School [2223] is gratefully acknowledged. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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