Pulsed laser excitation of phosphate stabilised silver nanoparticles |
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Authors: | Jyotirmayee Mohanty Dipak K Palit Laxminarayan V Shastri and Avinash V Sapre |
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Institution: | (1) Radiation Chemistry and Chemical Dynamics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, 400 085 Trombay, Mumbai, India |
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Abstract: | Laser flash photolysis studies were carried out on two types of silver nanoparticles prepared byγ-radiolysis of Ag+ solutions in the presence of polyphosphate as the stabiliser. Type I silver nanoparticles displayed a surface plasmon band
at 390 nm. Type II silver nanoparticles showed a 390 nm surface plasmon band with a shoulder at 550 nm. On photoexcitation
in the surface plasmon band region, using 35 picosecond laser pulses at 355 nm and 532 nm, the type II solutions showed transient
bleaching and absorption signals in the 450–900 nm region, which did not decay appreciably up to 5 nanoseconds. These transient
changes were found to get annealed in the intervalt where 5 ns<t< 100 ns. Extended photolysis of the nanoparticle solutions with repetitive laser pulses resulted in a decrease in the values
of the average particle size which were measured by employing the dynamic light scattering technique. |
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Keywords: | Pulsed laser excitation silver nanoparticles surface plasmon band sodium polyphosphate stabilizer |
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