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Effect of heating rate and plant species on the size and uniformity of silver nanoparticles synthesized using aromatic plant extracts
- Source :
- Applied Nanoscience. 6:1183-1190
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- Mixing aqueous silver solutions with aqueous leaf aromatic plant extracts from basil, mint, marjoram and peppermint resulted in the synthesis of quasi-spherical silver nanoparticles in a range of size between 2 and 80 nm in diameter as analyzed by analytical high-resolution electron microscopy. The average size could be controlled by applying heat to the initial reaction system at different rates of heating, and by the specific botanical species employed for the reaction. Increasing the rate of heating resulted in a statistically significant decrease in the size of the nanoparticles produced, regardless of the species employed. This fact was more evident in the case of marjoram, which decreased the average diameter from 27 nm at a slow rate of heating to 8 nm at a high rate of heating. With regard to the species, minimum sizes of
- Subjects :
- Green chemistry
Aqueous solution
Chemistry
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Mixing (process engineering)
Nanoparticle
Nanochemistry
Nanotechnology
02 engineering and technology
Cell Biology
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Silver nanoparticle
0104 chemical sciences
Plant species
Reaction system
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
0210 nano-technology
Biotechnology
Nuclear chemistry
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Details
- ISSN :
- 21905517 and 21905509
- Volume :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Applied Nanoscience
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6a6f60d87cf3e124377db5c84070f6a5