Elena V Shevchenko et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124(38), 11480-11485 (2002-09-19)
Reduction of platinum acetylacetonate and thermodecomposition of cobalt carbonyl in the presence of 1-adamantanecarboxylic acid were employed in different coordinating mixtures to produce monodisperse, highly crystalline CoPt(3) nanoparticles. The mean particle size can be varied from 1.5 to 7.2 nm