Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF SOLIDS
Volume 66, Issue 5, Pages 748-752Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2004.09.013
Keywords
thin films; chemical synthesis; crystal growth
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Dense, uniform and thickness controllable silver layers were successfully coated on the mono-dispersed submicrometer silica spheres to obtain silica-silver core-shell structural spheres. The growth process of nanoscaled silver layer on silica spheres mainly includes two steps, i.e. nanoscaled nuclei formation and controllable layer growth process. The nuclear-growth mechanism is responsible for the deposition processes. The reagent concentrations and reaction time were found to be the key factors for the formation of controllable silver layer. High quality silver layer with dense and uniform structure was verified by transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and Energy Dispersive X-ray microanalysis. (c) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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