Chemical preparation of Pd nanoparticles in room temperature ethylene glycol system and its application to electroless copper deposition

Enhanced hydrogen reaction kinetics of nanostructured Mg-based composites with nanoparticle metal catalysts dispersed on supports

“…The detailed suggested mechanism was described in literature [13]. The addition of NaOH into the EG system accelerates the reduction of metal ions to metal nanoparticles even at room tempera- ture without the need for external reducing agent and decreases the particle size [17]. The formation of Ni metal nanoparticles by chemical method is known to be very difficult because nickel is easily oxidized [18].…”

Controlled synthesis and properties of palladium nanoparticles

“…Pd NPs can catalyse other reactions when they are supported on a suitable material that can interact with the metal [1,[12][13][14]. The shape and size control of colloidal metal nanocrystals have become very important and reported in a great deal of works [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. In this article, the modified polyol method is utilised to make Pd NPs with various sizes and shapes.…”

Triethylamine induced synthesis of silver and bimetallic (Ag/Au) nanoparticles in glycerol and their antibacterial study

“…The crystalline sizes calculated using the half-width of the intense (111) reflections were found to be 35, 25, and 20 nm for Ag nanoparticles prepared without stabilizing agent, with SDS and with PVP, respectively. Taking into account literature reports [17][18][19][20] two possible mechanisms are proposed for the formation of Ag nanoparticles in glycerol in the presence of TEA. In mechanism 1 (Scheme 1), TEA oxidizes to diethylamine and acetaldehyde.…”

“…It is known that polyols undergo Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s40097-014-0113-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. oxidation in basic conditions that help in reduction of metal ions [16,17]. Recently, the effect of trietylamine (TEA) on the preformed Ag nanoparticles and during the formation of Au nanoparticles is discussed in literature [18][19][20].…”