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Beet Juice-Induced Green Fabrication of Plasmonic AgCl/Ag Nanoparticles
Citation:
Kou, J. AND R.S. Varma. Beet Juice-Induced Green Fabrication of Plasmonic AgCl/Ag Nanoparticles. ChemSusChem. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 5(12):2435-2441, (2012).
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Submitted for publication in Wiley-VCH journal, ChemSusChem
Description:
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 smaller size than the reaction precursor of AgCl, which is an unusual top-down hydrothermal synthesis. The as-prepared material displayed good photocatalytic activity for the degradation of methyl orange (MO) dye.
