Preparation method of polystyrene/gold composite microspheres

The invention relates to a preparation method of polystyrene/gold composite microspheres, which comprises the following steps: modifying polystyrene microspheres with a silane coupling agent, mixing with a chloroauric acid solution, and heating to carry out ionic selfassembly, wherein gold ions are fixed to the surface of the polystyrene microspheres through gold-nitrogen bonds; and after the solution is boiling, adding trisodium citrate to reduce the gold ions adsorbed onto the amino group in situ, thereby generating the core-shell structure in which a gold nanoparticle is coated on each polystyrene microsphere. The size of the gold particles and the coverage percentage of the gold particles on the polystyrene microspheres are controllable to some extent.