TY - JOUR
TI - Gold-decorated graphene nanosheets composed of a biocompatible non-charged water-soluble polypeptide
AU - Manos Gkikas
AU - Georgios V. Theodosopoulos
AU - Biswa P. Das
AU - Marina Tsianou
AU - Hermis Iatrou
AU - Georgios Sakellariou
JO - European Polymer Journal
PY - 2014
VL - 60
TODO - null
SP - 106--113
PB - ELSEVIER BV
SN - 0014-3057
TODO - 10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2014.08.022
TODO - Gold Nanoparticles;  Graphene nanosheets;  Graphene oxides;  L-proline
TODO - Nanocomposite materials derived from carbon/polymer hybrids and metallic nanoparticles are of great interest due to the wide spectrum of potential applications. In this work, the biocompatible, non-charged and independent of pH, water soluble polypeptide, poly(L-proline) (PLP), was covalently grafted on exfoliated graphene oxide (GO) by a 'grafting to' approach, through the ring opening reaction of the surface epoxide species, enabling thus the simultaneous reduction and stabilization of as-synthesized gold nanoparticles in water in one-step, without any toxic by-product formation. The PLP-mediated GO nanocomposites serve as a new scaffold for metallic particles supported on a carbon matrix through the polypeptide mediation, and could give rise to multiple applications, in catalysis and cancer therapies. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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