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Slow salt-induced aggregation of citrate-covered silver particles in aqueous solutions of cellulose derivatives

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In this work, the salt-induced aggregation of bare and polymer-covered silver particles has been studied with the aid of light scattering and UV-visible spectroscopy. Light scattering on a suspension of bare silver particles at a low salt concentration shows that the cluster fractal dimension d f changes from 1.6 to 2 in the course of the aggregation process, whereas no restructuring of the clusters is observed at a higher salinity where d f ≈ 1.6. The growth of the clusters over time can be described by a power law R h ∝ t α, where R h is the apparent hydrodynamic radius. The UV-visible experiments revealed that increasing the size of the bare silver particles lead to a significant broadening and red-shift of the absorbance band, whereas for salt-induced growth of Ag clusters, a blue-shift and broadening was observed. Addition of salt to a suspension of silver particles and hydroxyethylcellulose divulged a slower broadening of the surface plasmon peak than without polymer.

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This work was financially supported from the Research Council of Norway within the FRINAT program, project number 177556/V30.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1033, Blindern, 0315, Oslo, Norway

    Loan T. T. Trinh, Anna-Lena Kjøniksen, Kaizheng Zhu & Bo Nyström

  2. Department of Physics, Institute for Energy Technology, P.O. Box 40, 2027, Kjeller, Norway

    Kenneth D. Knudsen

  3. Ugelstad Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Sondre Volden & Wilhelm R. Glomm

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Trinh, L.T.T., Kjøniksen, AL., Zhu, K. et al. Slow salt-induced aggregation of citrate-covered silver particles in aqueous solutions of cellulose derivatives. Colloid Polym Sci 287, 1391–1404 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-009-2100-6

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