Abstract
This paper describes a new method for coating ceramic bodies with silver nanoparticles. Microwave dielectric heating was used for this purpose. Silver nanoparticles with an average size of ∼20 nm were coated on the silica surface by first opening the siloxane bonds into silanols. In the second stage, the metallic nanoparticles were deposited using a polyol reaction. A plausible mechanism for the role of the microwaves in the silver deposition on the silica spheres is proposed.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 255601 |
| Journal | Nanotechnology |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 25 |
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| State | Published - 27 Jun 2007 |