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Preparation of silver nanoparticles in solution from a silver salt by laser irradiation
J P Abid1, A W Wark, P F Brevet
1Laboratoire d'Electrochimie, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. jean-pierre.abid@epfl.ch
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 18, 2002
Abstract:
A new method is proposed for the fabrication of a well-defined size and shape distribution of silver nanoparticles in solution; the method employs direct laser irradiation of an aqueous solution containing a silver salt and a surfactant in the absence of reducing agents.