Direct Synthesis and Morphological Characterization of Gold-Dendrimer Nanocomposites Prepared Using PAMAM Succinamic Acid Dendrimers: Preliminary Study of the Calcification Potential
Figure 9
TEM and HR-TEM micrographs of Au-G6-1 nanocomposites: (a)–(d) after 60 minutes and (e)–(h) after 48 hours. (a), (e) Clusters of nanoparticles; (b), (f) chain-like structures of nanoparticles; (c) area with limited number of metal atoms accumulated inside PAMAM-G6 molecules; inset in (c) is a detailed view of the marked area from this image, and it shows gold domains inside one dendrimer molecule; (d) crystalline nanoparticle with adjacent crystalline structures; (g) small metal particles; (h) one nanoparticle. Size-distribution histograms are included as insets in (a), (d).
