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JOURNAL OF NANOPARTICLE RESEARCH
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 1759-1767Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-010-9955-9
Keywords
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR); core @ shell; Nanoparticles; Bimetallic nanostructure
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- CSIR, New Delhi
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Synthesis of core @ shell (Au @ Ag) nanoparticle with varying silver composition has been carried out in aqueous poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) matrix. Core gold nanoparticle (similar to 15 nm) has been synthesized through seed-mediated growth process. Synthesis of silver shell with increasing thickness (similar to 1-5 nm) has been done by reducing Ag+ over the gold sol in the presence of mild reducing ascorbic acid. Characterization of Au @ Ag nanoparticles has been done by UV-Vis, High resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopic study. The blue shift of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) band with increasing mole fraction of silver has been interpreted due to dampening of core, i.e. Au SPR by Ag. The dependence of nonlinear optical response of spherical core @ shell nanoparticles has been investigated as a function of relative composition of each metal. Simulation of SPR extinction spectra based on quasi-static theory is done. A comparison of our experimental and the simulated extinction spectra using quasi-static theory of nanoshell suggests that our synthesized bimetallic particles have core @ shell structure rather than bimetallic alloy particles.
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