Synthesis and Characterization of Colloidal Silver nanoparticles of about 16 nm Diameter by a Chemical Reduction Method

Abstract

The vast use of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) in rapidly growing number of biomedical applications and sensing has given the importance of different synthetic methods for the preparation of AgNPs. Threre are lots of effective synthetic procedure that are lacking to synthesize nanoparticles with maintaining proper size and shape in colloidal medium. Here in this article synthesis of colloidal AgNPs and its characterization is described. The sizes of the synthesized AgNPs were of about 16±2 nm. Some important modern techniques like UV vis spectroscopy, powdered X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) were used for proper characterization synthesized colloidal AgNPs. Silver nitrate (AgNO3) and sodium borohydride (NaBH4) were used to synthesize colloidal AgNPs where the later one plays vital dual role by reducing AgNO3 and giving stabilization of synthesized nanoparticles.