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Beet Juice-Induced Green Fabrication of Plasmonic AgCl/Ag Nanoparticles
Article first published online: 4 SEP 2012
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201200477
Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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How to Cite
Kou, J. and Varma, R. S. (2012), Beet Juice-Induced Green Fabrication of Plasmonic AgCl/Ag Nanoparticles . ChemSusChem, 5: 2435–2441. doi: 10.1002/cssc.201200477
Publication History
- Issue published online: 3 DEC 2012
- Article first published online: 4 SEP 2012
- Manuscript Received: 5 JUL 2012
Funded by
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
Keywords:
- green chemistry;
- microwave chemistry;
- nanoparticles;
- photocatalysis;
- silver
Abstract
A simple, green, and fast approach (complete within 5 min) was explored for the fabrication of hybrid AgCl/Ag plasmonic nanoparticles under microwave (MW) irradiation. In this method, beet juice served as a reducing reagent, which is an abundant sugar-rich agricultural produce. Interestingly, the obtained AgCl/Ag samples have a smaller size than the AgCl reaction precursor. This makes it an unusual top-down hydrothermal synthesis. The as-prepared material displayed good photocatalytic activity for the degradation of methyl orange (MO) dye.