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APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES
Volume 147, Issue -, Pages 204-210Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.02.015
Keywords
Platinum nanoparticles; Gamma radiolysis; Optical absorption; Absorption maxima; Intra-band quantum excitation; Theory of metal nanoparticles
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- Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia
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Platinum nanoparticles were synthesized using the gamma radiolytic technique in an aqueous solution containing Platinum tetraammine chloride in presence of poly vinyl pyrrolidone, isopropanol, tetrahydrofuran and deionized water. The gamma irradiation was carried out in a(60)Co gamma source chamber and the particle size was found to decrease from 4.88 to 3.14 nm on increasing the gamma radiation dose from 80 to 120 kGy. UV-visible absorption spectra were measured and revealed two steady absorption maxima at 216 and 264 nm in the UV region, which was blue shifted (i.e. toward lower wavelength) with decreasing particle size. By taking the conduction electrons of an isolated particle that are not entirely free, but instead bound to their respective quantum levels, the optical absorption of platinum nanoparticles can be calculated via intra-band quantum excitation for particle sizes similar to those measured experimentally. We found that the calculated absorption maxima of electronic excitations matched the measured absorption maxima well. This finding suggests that the optical absorption of metal nanoparticles commonly applied in nanoscience and nanotechnology can be described accurately by the quantum excitation of conduction electrons.
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