title: Beet juice-induced green fabrication of plasmonic AgCl/Ag nanoparticles.
abstract: A simple, green, and fast approach (complete within 5 min) was explored for the fabrication of hybrid AgCl/Ag plasmonic nanoparticles under microwave (MW) irradiation. In this method, beet juice served as a reducing reagent, which is an abundant sugar-rich agricultural produce. Interestingly, the obtained AgCl/Ag samples have a smaller size than the AgCl reaction precursor. This makes it an unusual top-down hydrothermal synthesis. The as-prepared material displayed good photocatalytic activity for the degradation of methyl orange (MO) dye.
authors.affiliation: Sustainable Technology Division, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, MS 443, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, USA.
authors.forename: Jiahui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kou
authors.forename: Rajender S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Varma
mesh_terms: D001391:Azo Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D027461:Beta vulgaris; D002384:Catalysis; D055772:Green Chemistry Technology; D053768:Metal Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008872:Microwaves; D028321:Plant Preparations / Q000737:chemistry*; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D018030:Silver Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D001391:Azo Compounds; D028321:Plant Preparations; D018030:Silver Compounds; D012834:Silver; C100258:methyl orange; C037548:silver chloride