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  • Applied Spectroscopy
  • Vol. 64,
  • Issue 12,
  • pp. 1407-1415
  • (2010)

Real-Time, in-Situ, Extinction Spectroscopy Studies on Silver-Nanoseed Formation

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Abstract

In this paper, real-time extinction spectroscopy was employed to analyze in situ the fast formation process of silver seeds. The influencing factors for silver-seed formation, including the concentration of the reducer (NaBH<sub>4</sub>), the amount of stabilizer (citrate), and the addition procedure of NaBH<sub>4</sub>, were evaluated. The configuration of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectra of silver nanoparticles, which reflected the morphology of the produced silver seeds, was found to be distinctly affected by the NaBH<sub>4</sub> concentration. Homogeneous silver nanoparticles were obtained when the added NaBH<sub>4</sub> was lower in concentration than 2.00 mM. In contrast, higher concentrations of reducing agent (≥3.00 mM NaBH<sub>4</sub>) resulted in uneven silver nanoparticles. Mie theory was applied to clarify the correlation of the SPR and the size of the silver seeds. Repeated additions of a small amount of the reducing agent could increase the monodispersity and isotropy of silver seeds. Real-time extinction spectroscopy is a convenient technique that achieves the in-situ and nondestructive measurement of intermediates in the formation process of silver nanoseeds.

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