Rapid continuous flow synthesis of high-quality silver nanocubes and nanospheres
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ArticleKAUST Department
Functional Nanomaterials Lab (FuNL)KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Date
2013Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/562541
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We report a biphasic-liquid segmented continuous flow method for the synthesis of high-quality plasmonic single crystal silver nanocubes and nanospheres. The nanocubes were synthesized with controllable edge lengths from 20 to 48 nm. Single crystal nanospheres with a mean size of 29 nm were obtained by in-line continuous-flow etching of as-produced 39 nm nanocubes with an aqueous solution of FeNO3. In comparison to batch synthesis, the demonstrated processes represent highly scalable reactions, in terms of both production rate and endurance. The reactions were conducted in a commercially available flow-reactor system that is easily adaptable to industrial-scale production, facilitating widespread utilization of the procedure and the resulting nanoparticles. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2013.Citation
Mehenni, H., Sinatra, L., Mahfouz, R., Katsiev, K., & Bakr, O. M. (2013). Rapid continuous flow synthesis of high-quality silver nanocubes and nanospheres. RSC Advances, 3(44), 22397. doi:10.1039/c3ra43295eSponsors
The authors acknowledge the use of KAUST's Core Labs and the support of KAUST's University Research Fund.Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)Journal
RSC Advancesae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1039/c3ra43295e