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Record W7092207024 · doi:10.1016/j.clay.2025.108013

Clickable halloysite nanotubes for interfacial strain promoted azide-alkyne cycloaddition of Au25 nanoclusters

2025· article· en· W7092207024 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Clay Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMaterials Science
TopicClay minerals and soil interactions
Canadian institutionsWestern University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Foundation for InnovationOntario Research Foundation
KeywordsNanoclustersHalloysiteCycloadditionX-ray photoelectron spectroscopyCovalent bondSurface modificationNanomaterialsSilanolAlkyne

Abstract

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Halloysite nanotubes (HNT) are naturally occurring biocompatible tubular clay minerals, susceptible to functionalization because of their inherent siloxane, silanol and aluminol functionality, that has made them attractive nanomaterials for modification and further applications. Interfacial strained promoted alkyne-azide cycloaddition (I-SPAAC) is a well-known click reaction that can be used to generate new hybrid HNT based nanomaterials. Herein, both azide and bicyclononyne strained alkyne modified HNT are prepared enabling I-SPAAC reactions with suitable reaction partners. I-SPAAC was demonstrated on both and was used to covalently bond azide-modified [N(C 8 H 17 ) 4 ][Au 25 (SCH 2 CH 2 -C 6 H 4 -N 3 ) 18 ] (Au 25 ) nanoclusters to HNT without need for catalyst and without nanocluster core alterations. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) confirmed HNT functionalization and that the Au 25 nanocluster was covalently bound to HNT through analysis of N 1s high resolution XPS spectra. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) with EDX confirmed that gold nanoclusters are homogeneously distributed over HNT. Diffuse reflectance spectra displayed Au 25 HOMO-LUMO transitions indicative that the metal core of the nanocluster remains unaltered. The successful covalent bonding of modified HNT capable of I-SPAAC enables the delivering of function to these solid supports for future applications, including nanohybrid gold nanoclusters for use in solid state reactions or heterogeneous catalysis. • Halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) were covalently functionalized with a strained alkyne. • The HNT-based composite was obtained via interfacial strain-promoted alkyne-azide cycloaddition with gold nanoclusters. • Successful click reaction was confirmed by XPS, exploiting its applicability to monitor chemical reactions on materials. • TEM images revealed a homogeneous dispersion of gold nanoclusters.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.019
Threshold uncertainty score0.673

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.289
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it