Title: Polyol mediated synthesis & characterization of Cu nanoparticles: effect of 1-hexadecylamine as stabilizing agent
Abstract: A facile method of preparing well-dispersed copper nanoparticles by polyol method, using 1- hexadecylamine as a protecting agent in ambient atmosphere, has been developed. Polyol mediated preparation of nanoparticles is one of the widely used methods that enables controlling the size and shape of nanoparticles. It is demonstrated that 1-hexadecylamine used as stabilizing agent during polyol mediated synthesis presents uniform, spherical and small sized copper nanoparticles than the commonly use PVP stabilizer. Higher alkylamine/Cu molar ratio leads to production of spherical and smaller copper nanoparticles. Palladium and gold prepared using alkylamine show uniform and small nanoparticles suggesting the efficiency of long chain alkylamine as capping agents. The nanoparticles showed a self-assembling on the alkylamine template.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-02-21
Language: en
Type: article
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