This metal is treated with citrate to produce red nanoparticles of it in the Turkevich method. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this non-platinum metal dissolved by aqua regia.
ANSWER: gold [or Au; or aurum]
[10m] In the vapor–liquid–solid method, gold nanoparticles serve as seed nuclei for producing nanowire whiskers of this material. Single crystals of this material are the main product of the Czochralski (“chock-RALL-skee”) process.
ANSWER: silicon [or Si]
[10h] Gold nanoparticles are used to produce these structures, whose formation begins with the adsorption of a head group onto a substrate. Addition of alkane·thiols cause these structures to “stand-up” into complex 3-D patterns.
ANSWER: self-assembled monolayers [or SAMs; prompt on monolayers]
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