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GREENER SYNTHESIS OF ALIGNED PALLADIUM NANOBELTS AND NANOPLATES IN AQUEOUS MEDIUM USING VITAMIN B1
Citation:
NADAGOUDA, M. N. AND R. S. VARMA. GREENER SYNTHESIS OF ALIGNED PALLADIUM NANOBELTS AND NANOPLATES IN AQUEOUS MEDIUM USING VITAMIN B1. Presented at 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10 - 14, 2006.
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Description:
Palladium (Pd) plays an important role in many industrial and technological applications such as reduction of automobile pollutants, and Suzuki, Heck, and Stille coupling reactions. Consequently, a great deal of effort has been devoted to the synthesis of Pd nanostructures. Herein, we describe an extremely simple, one-pot, greener method to synthesize bulk quantities of nanoballs of aligned nanobelts and nanoplates of the nobel metal palladium in water using vitamin B1 without the need of capping or surfactant agents, and/or large amounts of insoluble templates. The palladium nanobelts and nanoplates were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and UV spectroscopy and energy dispersive electron X-ray analysis (EDX).