Why Some Metal Ions Spontaneously Form Nanoparticles in Water Microdroplets? Disentangling the Contributions of Air-Water Interface and Bulk Redox Chemistry

Muzzamil Ahmad Eatoo, Nimer Wehbe, Najeh Kharbatia +2

Water microdroplets containing 100 micromolar HAuCl4 have been shown to reduce gold ions into gold nanoparticles spontaneously. It has been suggested that this chemical transformat…