This study was designed to probe the fabrication of unique silver and gold nano-structures engaging a self-designed chitosan-porous anodic alumina nano-composite as a template. Porous anodic alumina has been manufactured by di-step aluminum anodization in an oxalic acid electrolytic bath. The surface properties of porous anodic alumina were reinforced by chitosan neutralized in sodium hydro...

We present a very simple and effective way for the synthesis of tunable coloured silver sols having different morphologies. The procedure is based on the seed-mediated growth approach where methyl cellulose (MC) has been used as soft-template in the growth solution. Nanostructures of varying morphologies as well as colour of the silver sols are controlled by altering the concentration of citrat...

Silver nanostructures deposited on glass showed luminescent blinking when excited at a high 442 nm irradiance. The irradiance required to photoactivate the silver, was dependent on the nature of the silver nanostructures. Silver fractal-like structures were found to be highly emissive, requiring only ≈30 W/cm(2) for photoactivation as compared to silver island films and spin-coated silver collo...

In this work, we report first-principles calculations of the electronic structure of silver infinite nanotubes, chains and nanowires. For the purpose of this study, the focus is on two specific types of silver nanostructures. We have calculated the electronic structures for the silver (2,3) and the silver (3,4) extended nanostructures. For the (2,3) structure, we modeled the single-wall tube, a...

Electrochemical cycling of silver surfaces in the presence of the organophosphonates paraoxon and malathion leads to changes in the electrochemical response of silver and the formation of silver nanostructures. Adsorption of the organophosphonates onto the silver surfaces causes a significant reduction in the observed current response due to an increase in the charge transfer resistance. Surfac...

silver nanowires were synthesized by solvothermal method through reducing silver nitrate (agno3) with ethylene glycol (eg) in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone (pvp). in order to prevent the agglomeration of ag+ in the initial ag seeds formation, sodium chloride (nacl) was added into the solution to form agcl colloids. by dissolving agcl in the late stages, ag+ ions were released into the so...

One dimensional metal nanostructures with the capability of guiding electromagnetic energy are attractive for nanoscale optical devices and circuits. These nanostructures can be also excellent candidates for Raman markers that exploit surfaceenhanced Raman scattering (SERS) phenomena. Onedimensional nanostructures show promising capabilities for guiding and confining the exciting light in nanog...

Silver is one of the most important materials in plasmonics. Tuning the size of various silver nanostructures has been actively pursued in the last decade. However, silver nanobelt, a typical one-dimensional silver nanostructure, has not been systematically studied as to tuning its size for controllable plasmonic response. Here we show that silver nanobelts, with mean width ranging from 45 to 1...

How particles aggregate into an interesting dendritic structure has been the object of research for many years because of its importance in understanding physical processes involved and in designing novel materials. In this work, we for the first time describe an oriented attachment-based assembly mechanism for formation of different types of dendritic silver nanostructures at room temperature....

Tween 80 (polysorbate 80) has been used as a reducing agent and protecting agent to prepare stable water-soluble silver nanoparticles on a large scale through a one-pot process, which is simple and environmentally friendly. Silver ions can accelerate the oxidation of Tween 80 and then get reduced in the reaction process. The well-ordered arrays such as ribbon-like silver nanostructures could be...