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Study on the Mechanism of the Reversible Color Change of Polyacrylic Acid Modified Gold Nanoparticles Responding to pH.

ABSTRACT: In view of various explanations regarding the pH response of the nanocomposite of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) modified with polyacrylic acid (PAA) molecules in reported literature, in this work, AuNPs with a size of 20 nm saturatedly loaded with PAA molecules (AuNPs-PAAs) were used to investigate the following aspects of this issue. We investigated the effects of pH on the stability of AuNPs-PAAs in the presence of salt, CTAB, poly (sodium styrenesulfonate) (PSS), ethanol, and free PAA, respectively. Common techniques were undertaken to evaluate the stability, including UV-Vis spectroscopy, Zeta potential analysis, and TEM. The results show that AuNPs-PAAs could respond to pH variations, having a reversible aggregation-to-disaggregation, accompanying their Zeta potential change. The proposed corresponding mechanism was that this reversible change was attributes to the net charge variation of AuNPs-PAAs induced by a reversible protonation-to-deprotonation of PAA rather than the conformational change. It was found that salt, CTAB, PSS, and free PAA could strengthen the dispersity of AuNPs-PAAs, even though their absolute Zeta potential values were decreased to small values or dropped to nearly zero. This abnormal phenomenon was explained by solvation. It was also found that AuNPs-PAAs have an opposite pH response in aqueous and ethanol solutions, justifying the solvation effect. All these results revealed the conformational stability of PAAs immobilized on AuNPs. The methods and the findings of this investigation give some new insights to understand the pH-response of AuNPs-PAAs composites and the design of AuNPs-PAAs-based functional sensors.

SUBMITTER: Li R

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