Artigo Revisado por pares

A green protocol for room temperature synthesis of silver nanoparticles in seconds

2009; Indian Academy of Sciences; Volume: 97; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

0011-3891

Autores

Sankar Kalidas Sivaraman, Iniyan Elango, Sanjeev Kumar, Venugopal Santhanam,

Tópico(s)

Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions

Resumo

We describe here a rapid, energy-efficient, green and economically scalable room temperature protocol for the synthesis of silver nanoparticles. Tannic acid, a polyphenolic compound derived from plant extracts is used as the reducing agent. Silver nanoparticles of mean size ranging from 3.3 to 22.1 nm were synthesized at room temperature by the addition of silver nitrate to tannic acid solution maintained at an alkaline pH. The mean size was tuned by varying the molar ratio of tannic acid to silver nitrate. We also present proof of concept results demonstrating its suitability for room temperature continuous flow processing.

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