Issue 116, 2015

Synthesis of silver nanoparticles in a microfluidic coaxial flow reactor

Abstract

The size and dispersity of nanoparticles (NPs) determine the properties that such particles display. In this study, synthesis of silver nanoparticles in a coaxial flow reactor (CFR) was investigated by confining the reaction and subsequent nucleation to an interface away from the channel wall. Silver NPs were formed at room temperature by reducing silver nitrate with sodium borohydride in the presence of sodium hydroxide, while trisodium citrate was used as the surfactant. The main parameters investigated were flow rate of reagents through the CFR and concentrations of trisodium citrate and silver nitrate. Decreasing the total flow rate resulted in the NP size and dispersity reducing from 5.4 ± 3.4 nm to 3.1 ± 1.6 nm. Increasing surfactant concentration reduced size and dispersity from 8.5 ± 6.9 nm to 4.1 ± 1.1 nm. By tuning the precursor concentration the size and dispersity could be reduced from 9.3 ± 3 nm to 3.7 ± 0.8 nm.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis of silver nanoparticles in a microfluidic coaxial flow reactor

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
28 Aug 2015
Accepted
27 Oct 2015
First published
06 Nov 2015
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2015,5, 95585-95591

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Synthesis of silver nanoparticles in a microfluidic coaxial flow reactor

R. Baber, L. Mazzei, N. T. K. Thanh and A. Gavriilidis, RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 95585 DOI: 10.1039/C5RA17466J

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