Synthesis of one-dimensional silver oxide nanoparticle arrays and silver nanorods templated by Langmuir monolayers

Surface characteristics and antibacterial activity of a silver-doped carbon monolith

“…The silver concentration decreases rapidly at first. The initial high concentration values are probably due to the residue of AgNO 3 in the porous capillary channels or due to the dissolved surface Ag oxide layer, previously formed upon contact between the dry surface of deposited Ag and air [17,31,32]. However, after rinsing the CM with 150 cm 3 of distilled water, the attrition rate becomes negligible and the concentration of Ag in the effluent remains two times lower than the maximum allowed concentration in drinking water.…”

One-pot synthesis, optical property and self-assembly of monodisperse silver nanospheres

“…To date, these noble-metal nanocrystals have been widely used in the fields of catalysis [5], memory devices [6,7], and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) [8,9], and also used as building blocks for nanocrystal assemblies [10]. Up to now, a large number of physical and chemical synthetic methods have been explored to effectively control the size and morphology of noble-metal nanocrystals, such as polyol process [11,12], aerosol technique [13], thermolysis of a single-source organometallic precursor [14,15], surfactantpromoted reductive route [16,17], seed-growth method [18] and so on. These strategies make it possible to produce high-quality metal nanocrystals with uniform size and different shapes ranging spheres to wires, rods, disks, cubes and prisms [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

“…Up to now, a large number of physical and chemical synthetic methods have been explored to effectively control the size and morphology of noble-metal nanocrystals, such as polyol process [11,12], aerosol technique [13], thermolysis of a single-source organometallic precursor [14,15], surfactantpromoted reductive route [16,17], seed-growth method [18] and so on. These strategies make it possible to produce high-quality metal nanocrystals with uniform size and different shapes ranging spheres to wires, rods, disks, cubes and prisms [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. As an important member of metal nanocrystals, silver (Ag) nanocrystals have been extensively studied and are of particular interest because of their unusual properties and applications presumably associated with their morphologies and size [19,20].…”

Electrochemical synthesis and magnetic properties of single-crystal and netlike poly-crystal Ni nanowire arrays

“…However, theoretical and experimental investigations reveal that surface absorption can reduce relative surface energy value of a high-surface-energy face and thus favor its presence in crystal growth [20][21][22]. Further experimental studies also demonstrate that some ions or molecules can be absorbed on the higher surface energy face {2 2 0} of fcc metal such as Au, Ag and Ni, stabilizing these faces [23][24][25]. In our experiments, it seems that absorption ions such as H ions [23] favor the presence of {2 2 0} faces and lead to the preferred {2 2 0} growth of single-crystal Ni NWs.…”