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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 5, Issue 9, Pages 6553-6559Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ra09667c
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- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT)
- National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
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Four short ligands; cysteine, cysteamine, dithiothrietol and glycine are examined and compared in their ability to stabilize and assemble silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and UV-visible spectroscopy are used to characterize these nanoparticles in terms of their size (7-16 nm), stability, and capacity for inter-particle assembly and plasmon coupling enforced by hydrogen-bonding. The results show that both sulfhydryl and amine groups can interact with the silver nanoparticle surface. The polydispersity of glycine-stabilized AgNPs can be significantly reduced by centrifugal filtration using an appropriate membrane pore size.
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