title: Silver nanoplates and nanowires by a simple chemical reduction method.
abstract: This paper describes a simple preparation of single-crystalline Ag-nanoparticles including plates, and wires in water by truncated triangular particles for the first time during the reduction of [Ag(NH₃)₂]⁺ complex with glucose at room temperature. Silver particles were characterized by means of the conventional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and UV-VIS spectroscopy. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CTAB, plays a number of roles during the redox process by solubilizing the reactants, controlling the nucleation and/or growth of nanoparticles, stabilizing the thus-prepared Ag-nanoparticles and minimizing the formation of Ag₂O, AgCl, and AgBr precipitates. It was found that the rate constant and absorbance of silver nanoparticles were sigmoidal to the concentration of silver nitrate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi 110025, India. drkhanchem@yahoo.co.in
authors.forename: Zaheer
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Javed Ijaz
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Athar Adil
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Hashmi
mesh_terms: D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D036103:Nanotechnology; D053770:Nanowires / Q000737:chemistry*; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D018030:Silver Compounds / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D018030:Silver Compounds; D012834:Silver