Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by Microwave Heating: A Kinetic and Mechanistic Re-Analysis and Re-Interpretation

Özkar, Saim; Finke, Richard G.

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b06323

Title: Silver Nanoparticles Synthesized by Microwave Heating: A Kinetic and Mechanistic Re-Analysis and Re-Interpretation

Journal Article · Thu Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b06323· OSTI ID:1415067

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Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States

A quantitative kinetics and mechanistic reanalysis is performed of an important 2016 paper that described the formation of Agn nanoparticles from the polyol reduction of silver nitrate in the presence of poly(Nvinylpyrrolidone) under microwave heating. Elegantly and expertly obtained, in operando synchrotron high-energy X-ray diffraction (HEXRD) data, integrated with the microwave heating for the first time, were used to follow the Agn nanoparticle formation reaction in real time and to obtain time-resolved, HEXRD peak areas for the formation of both Ag(111) and Ag(200) facets. Unfortunately, the subsequent kinetics and mechanistic analysis that resulted is far from the state-of-the-art and was done without citing nor using wellestablished literature of nanoparticle nucleation and growth kinetics and mechanisms that has been available for over 20 years. Herein, the data are re-analyzed and re-interpreted in light of the fitting of the kinetics data with the presently most widely cited and employed, deliberately minimalistic, disproof-based nanoparticle nucleation and growth mechanism, dating back to 1997, of the pseudoelementary steps of slow continuous nucleation, A → B (rate constant k¹), and then fast, autocatalytic surface growth, A + B → 2B (rate constant k₂), where A is the starting Ag⁺ and B is the Ag⁰ product. The two pseudoelementary step mechanism is shown to be able to account for the previously reported kinetics data even for these large, up to ~100 nm (i.e., 0.1 μm) Ag_n nanoparticles, a remarkable result in its own right given that there are on the order of ~10⁷ Ag(0) atoms in a ~100 nm particle formed from the reduction of ~10⁷ Ag⁺ atoms in what must be >107 actual elementary steps. However, the k₂ rate constant in particular likely loses much of its value since it is an average over a large change in the percentage of surface atoms in the growing nanoparticle. The results lead to nine revisions of questionable to incorrect previous claims and conclusions, plus a series of eight insights and guidelines for future work in nanoparticle formation kinetics and mechanism. An extensive Supporting Information further discusses interesting questions regarding the issues in analyzing and understanding nanoparticle formation kinetics and the mechanism of such large, ~0.1 μm-sized particles.

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Research Organization:: Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division

Grant/Contract Number:: FG402-03ER15453; FG02-03ER15453

OSTI ID:: 1415067

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1529569

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Journal Name: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C Vol. 121 Journal Issue: 49; ISSN 1932-7447

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Language:: English

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