Issue 1, 2006
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Green Chemistry

A simple and “green” method for the synthesis of Au, Ag, and Au–Ag alloy nanoparticles

Poovathinthodiyil Raveendran,*ab   Jie Fua  and  Scott L. Wallen*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and NSF STC for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina -27599-3290, USA
E-mail: wallen@email.unc.edu

b National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, 4-2-1, Nigatake, Miyagino-ku Sendai, Japan
E-mail: ravi@ni.aist.go.jp

Abstract

Integration of “green chemistry” principles into nanotechnology is one of the key issues in nanoscience research today. In this work, we report an environmentally benign method for the preparation of Au, Ag, and Au–Ag nanoparticles in water, using glucose as the reducing agent and starch as the protecting agent. The alloy nanoparticles prepared in this way appears to be homogeneous and their sizes are well within the quantum size domain (<10 nm), where they are more amenable to size-dependent changes in electronic properties.

Graphical abstract: A simple and “green” method for the synthesis of Au, Ag, and Au–Ag alloy nanoparticles

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B512540E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Sep 2005
Accepted
15 Nov 2005
First published
30 Nov 2005

Green Chem., 2006,8, 34-38

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A simple and “green” method for the synthesis of Au, Ag, and Au–Ag alloy nanoparticles

P. Raveendran, J. Fu and S. L. Wallen, Green Chem., 2006, 8, 34 DOI: 10.1039/B512540E

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