Facile Scale-Up of the Flow Synthesis of Silver Nanostructures Based on Norrish Type I Photoinitiators.

ABSTRACT: Silver nanoparticles have become one of the most commercially and industrially relevant nanomaterials of the 21st century, owing to their potent antibacterial properties, as well as their useful catalytic and optical properties. Although many methods have been explored to produce AgNPs, we favor the photochemical approach using photoinitiators to produce AgNPs, owing to the high degree of control over reaction conditions, and the generation of so-called AgNP 'seeds' that can be used as-is, or as precursors for other silver nanostructures. In this work, we explore the scale-up of AgNP synthesis using flow chemistry and assess the usefulness of a range of industrial Norrish Type 1 photoinitiators in terms of flow compatibility and reaction time, as well as the resulting plasmonic absorption

SUBMITTER: Yaghmaei M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10254936 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature