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Silver/zinc oxide (Ag/ZnO) composites were fabricated by a facile one-pot synthesis method under hydrothermal conditions. By choosing glucose as the reductant, metal Ag was fabricated from Ag2O with the growth of the crystalline ZnO. Structure measurements revealed that obtained Ag/ZnO composites comprised wurtzite ZnO and face-centered cubic structure of nanosized Ag, which uniformly distributed in the composites. Moreover, the morphology of the ZnO was varied regularly with the formation of Ag nanoparticles from flower-like to rod-like and finally returned to flower-like. The optical properties of UV–Vis and surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectra of the composites as well as effects of the dimension of metal Ag fabricated during the prior period of reaction on the morphology of ZnO were discussed.
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The authors are grateful to the National Nature Science Foundation of China (50873026), the Six Talents Pinnacle Program” of Jiangsu Province of China (06-A-033), and Science and Technology Support Program of Jiangsu Province of China for financial supports of this research. We are also grateful to Mr. Aiqun Xu from the Analysis and Testing Centre of Southeast University for his kind help with the measurements.
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Ye, XY., Zhou, YM., Sun, YQ. et al. Preparation and characterization of Ag/ZnO composites via a simple hydrothermal route. J Nanopart Res 11, 1159–1166 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-008-9511-z
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