Quantification of the Shell Thickness of Tin Oxide/Gold Core–Shell Nanoparticles by X‑ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Encapsulation of nanoparticles (NP) by a shell material provides characteristics and properties not achievable by the individual materials of the core and the shell. Therefore, the characterization of morphology parameters of core–shell nanoparticles (CSNP) is critical to determine their performance. In this work, an analysis to determine the shell thickness of CSNP has been conducted using a simple and noniterative procedure known as Shard’s …