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- Title
A review on radiation-induced nucleation and growth of colloidal metallic nanoparticles.
- Authors
Abedini, Alam; Daud, Abdul Razak; Abdul Hamid, Muhammad Azmi; Kamil Othman, Norinsan; Saion, Elias
- Abstract
This review presents an introduction to the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles by radiation-induced method, especially gamma irradiation. This method offers some benefits over the conventional methods because it provides fully reduced and highly pure nanoparticles free from by-products or chemical reducing agents, and is capable of controlling the particle size and structure. The nucleation and growth mechanism of metallic nanoparticles are also discussed. The competition between nucleation and growth process in the formation of nanoparticles can determine the size of nanoparticles which is influenced by certain parameters such as the choice of solvents and stabilizer, the precursor to stabilizer ratio, pH during synthesis, and absorbed dose.
- Subjects
METAL nanoparticles; NANOPARTICLE synthesis; DISCONTINUOUS precipitation; OXIDATION-reduction reaction; RADIATION; STABILIZING agents
- Publication
Nanoscale Research Letters, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1931-7573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1556-276X-8-474