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Synthetic Routes for the Preparation of Silver Nanoparticles

A Mechanistic Perspective

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In this chapter, we revise some of the most relevant and widely used synthetic routes available for the preparation of metallic silver nanoparticles. Particular emphasis has been focused in the rationale involved in the formation of the nanostructures, from the early metallic silver atoms formation, passing by atoms nucleation and concluding in the growth of silver nanostructures. We hope the reader will find in this chapter a valuable tool to better understand the relevance of the experimental conditions in the resulting silver nanoparticle size, shape and overall properties.

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Acknowledgments

We want to thank to all the researchers whose work has been cited in here. C.D.B thanks the Agencia de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT) and Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (UNSE) for combined financial support (PICTO-UNSE-2012-0013). N.L.P and A.V.V would like to thank funding support from CONICET, ANPCyT-PICT 2011-0106, SECYT-UNC and Mincyt-Córdoba. N.P., A.V., V.R., and C.D.B. are research members of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) of Argentina.

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    Natalia L. Pacioni & Alicia V. Veglia

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Pacioni, N.L., Borsarelli, C.D., Rey, V., Veglia, A.V. (2015). Synthetic Routes for the Preparation of Silver Nanoparticles. In: Alarcon, E., Griffith, M., Udekwu, K. (eds) Silver Nanoparticle Applications. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11262-6_2

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