The fast development of metal nanoparticles capped with organic monolayer is offering the possibility to create a whole new variety of products with novel characteristic, functions and applications. Among these, the nanoparticles covered with carbohydrates (glyconanoparticles) constitute a good bio-mimetic model of carbohydrate presentation at the cell surface and are currently centered on many glycobiologicle and biomedical applications. In this paper, a series of novel D-xylose gold nanoparticles with the linkers of alkyl or polyethylene glycol have been synthesized via D-xylosethiols formed self-assembled monolayers on gold nanoparticles. The xylose-modified gold nanoparticles characterize by using TEM, UV-Vis and colorimetry techniques and are investigated.