This invention discloses a method for preparing gold-coated
silica nanoparticles with an egg
yolk shell structure. The method involves adding
trisodium citrate solution,
tannic acid solution, and
sodium carbonate solution to a flask and stirring. After heating,
chloroauric acid solution is added, and stirring continues while maintaining a certain temperature to obtain a gold
nanoparticle solution. The gold
nanoparticle solution,
anhydrous ethanol,
ammonia, and
hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide are then added to the flask, stirred, and
resorcinol is added, with continued stirring. After the reaction,
formaldehyde is added dropwise, followed by
tetraethyl orthosilicate. The
reaction product is washed multiple times with deionized water by
centrifugation, dried overnight in an oven, calcined, and then washed multiple times with deionized water by
centrifugation and dried in an oven to obtain gold-coated
silica nanoparticles with an egg
yolk shell structure. This one-pot
sol-
gel method is low-cost, simple, and rapid, producing
gold particles with uniform morphology, a uniform silica shell thickness, and a large internal space within the egg
yolk shell.