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Facile Synthesis and Characterization of Monodisperse Silver Colloidal Nanoparticles Stabilized by Sodium Laurate

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A facile process was present in this paper for synthesizing nano silver particles colloidal in aqueous solutions using silver nitrate, sodium laurate, and hydrazine hydrate as silver precursor, stabilizer, and reducing agents, respectively. The generation of nano silver particles was confirmed by change of color from milk white to brown or dark. The prepared silver nanoparticles were analyzed by scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), UV–Visible spectroscopy (UV–Vis), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic (FT-IR). The SEM and TEM images indicated that the prepared silver nanoparticles have spherical shape, average size of 6 nm, and with a narrow distribution from 2 to 8 nm. The XRD information exhibited that the obtained metallic nanoparticles were highly crystalline in nature. FT-IR data demonstrated that the sodium laurate absorbed on the surface of silver nanoparticles. The effects of the sodium laurate and hydrazine hydrate on the silver nanoparticle formation were studied. The mechanism of the formation silver nanoparticles was discussed. The process raised in this study can be considered as an excellent candidate for the preparation of silver nanoparticles in a large-scale production. The simple method can be extended to synthesis of other noble metal nanoparticles.

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This work was supported by the Key Scientific Research Projects of Education Department of Hubei Province (No. D20164502), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81371939 and 31270150), and Hubei Polytechnic University scientific research project (15xjz04R). The authors would like to acknowledge the support from a 7th European Community Framework Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) Program, entitled “Micro- Multi-Material Manufacture to Enable Multifunctional Miniaturised Devices (M6)” (Grant Reference: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IRSES: Program No. 269113), as well as a project funded by China-European Union technology cooperation, Grant No. 1110, (2011). This work was also financially supported by the ‘Open Research Fund Program of Hubei-MOST KLOS & KLOBME’. The authors thank to Prof. Lihua Zhu for using her UV–Vis Spectrophotometer. The authors do appreciate Prof. Xueliang Qiao for useful suggestions. The electron microscopy and XRD studies were conducted at Analytical and Testing Center in HUST.

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    Chunfa Dong, Fei Cheng, Xiangjie Wang, Xinhua Xiao & Bin Yuan

  2. State Key Lab of Materials Processing and Die and Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Chunfa Dong & Xianglin Zhang

  3. College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, 330031, People’s Republic of China

    Chuanliang Cao

  4. College of Physical and Electronic Science, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi, 435003, People’s Republic of China

    Yanlong Zhan

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Dong, C., Cheng, F., Zhang, X. et al. Facile Synthesis and Characterization of Monodisperse Silver Colloidal Nanoparticles Stabilized by Sodium Laurate. Iran J Sci Technol Trans Sci 42, 1905–1913 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40995-017-0353-3

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