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The solvent-free controlled thermolysis of metal complexes in the absence or presence of amines is the simple one-pot synthesis of the metal nanoparticles such as gold, silver, platinum, and palladium nanoparticles and Au-Ag, Au-Pt, and Ag-Pd alloy nanoparticles. In spite of no use of solvent, stabilizer, and reducing agent, the nanoparticles produced by this method can be well size regulated. The controlled thermolysis in the presence of amines achieved to produce narrow size dispersed small metal nanoparticles under milder condition. This synthetic method may be highly promising as a facile new route to prepare size-regulated metal nanoparticles. Finally, solvent-free controlled thermolysis is widely applicable to other metal nanoparticles such as copper and nickel... 

Kitchens, C.L., McLeod, M.C. and Roberts, C.B. (2003) Solvent effects on the growth and steric stabilization of copper metallic nanoparticles in AOT reverse micelle systems. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 107 (41), 11331-11338. 

Metallic nanoparticles have been synthesized in vivo using plants. Intracellular synthesis of gold nanopartides was demonstrated using the sweet desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) plant [95]. The average size of Au nanopartides formed in various tissues was dependent on the concentration of Au in the respective tissues. Haver-kamp et al. [96] synthesized a gold-silver-copper alloy in vivo using the Brasskajuncea plant. 

Zhao et al (70) developed a method for the synthesis of dendrimer-encapsulated metal nanoparticles based on sorbing metal ions into (modified) PAMAM dendrimers followed by a reduction. Dendrimers encapsulating copper, palladium, and platinum nanoparticles have been prepared. Hydroxyl-terminated PAMAM dendrimers were used to prepare encapsulated palladium (PAMAM generations 4, 6, and 8) and platinum (PAMAM generations 4 and 6) nanoparticles. The dendrimer-encapsulated palladium and platinum nanocomposites catalyzed the hydrogenation reaction of allyl alcohol and N-isopropyl acrylamide in water 71). 

Originally, the effect of charge state of nanostructures on their catalytic activity was recognized from analysis of the experimental data on the catalytic properties of metallic nanoparticles immobilized in the matrix of a poly-paraxylylene polymer [13-15,24]. It was found that the dependence of the catalytic activity (and, in some cases, of the selectivity) of copper, palladium, and iron nanoparticles on the metal content of these structures has a maximum. This maximum exists not only for the specific (related to unit weight) activity, but also for the absolute activity. More specifically, for copper and... 

Fig. 2 shows how the aminoday -metal nanoparticle composites form clear transparent solutions in water. The solutions are pink and yellow for Au and Ag respectively and dark brown in the cases of both Pt and Pd. The reddish-brown colour observed for Au-clay nanoparticle composites immediately after the addition of NaBH4 changed to pink with time. The solutions exhibit characteristic piasmon bands for the Au- and Ag-day suspensions at 520 nm and 410 nm respectively as shown in Fig. 3. In the cases of Pt and Pd, the characteristic absorption band for the precursor s around 260 to 280 nm was absent thereby confirming the formation of Pt and Pd nanoparticles. 7,18 TEM images of the aminoday-metal nanoparticle composites deposited on a carbon coated copper grid are shown in Fig. 4. The histograms show the average particle sizes to be around 3.5 and 5 nm respectively in the cases of Au and Ag nanoparticles. We could see the layered arrangements in the cases of Pt and Pd with the interspacing of 1.5 nm commensurate with the bilayer arrangement of aminoclays (see top right inset of Fig. 4b).

For metal ions that do not form either covalent bonds or strong complexes with the interior amine groups of PAMAM dendrimers, a new method for the synthesis of dendrimer-encapsulated metal nanoparticles has been reported [26]. For example, when G6 dendrimer (with surface hydroxyl group) -encapsulated copper is exposed to a solution containing ions more noble than copper,... 

In particular, silver nanoparticles and occasionally gold nanoparticles are employed in inks due to their low electrical resistivity, low tendency toward oxidation, and generally high chemical stability. Other metal nanoparticles, such as copper and nickel particles, tend to oxidize and yield formulations that are less stable than silver and gold at ambient conditions. Carbon nanoparticles, which incorporate relatively inexpensive raw materials, are difficult to prepare in an industrial process and have higher resistivity than metal particles. Use of non-metal nanoparticles, such as silicon, for non-conductive electronic features, is also described in the literature on IJ inks. ... 

Metal nanoparticles have attracted considerable interest due to their properties and applications related to size effects, which can be appropriately studied in the framework of nanophotonics [1]. Metal nanoparticles such as silver, gold and copper can scatter light elastically with remarkable efficiency because of a collective resonance of the conduction electrons in the metal (i.e., the Dipole Plasmon Resonance or Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance). Plasmonics is quickly becoming a dominant science-based technology for the twenty-first century, with enormous potential in the fields of optical computing, novel optical devices, and more recently, biological and medical research [2]. In particular, silver nanoparticles have attracted particular interest due to their applications in fluorescence enhancement [3-5]. 

The enhancement of surface plasmon absorption of metal nanoparticles may be a result of strong near-field coupling in the close-packed copper-silver nanostructure. The effect is more considerable at the spectral range outside of the copper interband absorption that is why it is not evident at the LSPA band of silver nanoparticles. At th e fi equency range near the LSPA band of copper nanoparticles, near-field coupling is not suppressed by die interband absorption so much and the LSPA enhancement is well seen. 

LSPs are detected as resonance peaks in the absorption or scattering spectra or as dips in the transmission spectra of the metallic nanoparticles. Nanoparticles of very conductive metals like gold, silver, and copper are ideal materials for excitation of localized surface plasmons due to an extremely high ratio of the modulus of the real (Sr) to the imaginary parts (8i) of its dielectric constant. Silver and copper nanoparticles are prone to oxidation and therefore often require coatings of protective over layers. Gold nanoparticles are chemically stable and are employed for the development of devices based on plasmon resonances of nanoparticles. 

Bigot, J.-Y., Merle. J.-C.. Cregut, O., Daunois, A. Electron dynamics in copper metallic nanoparticles probed with femtosecond optical pulses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4702 705 (1995)... 

Another very interesting application was presented recently by the author. Electrochemical discharges can be used for the synthesis of metallic nanoparticles [78,141]. The principle is very simple. A metallic slat, such as copper sulphate, is added in low concentration to a supporting electrolyte. Electrochemical discharges are applied for a few hours. When the solution is dried (in order to remove the supporting electrolyte) metallic nanoparticles are obtained. The electrochemical discharges locally reduce the metal salt. 

Copper nanoparticles have been synthesized in silica by 50 keV Cu ion implantation with doses of 8.0x10 ion/cm. N anoparticles were c haracterized by absorption band of surface plasmon resonance in the visible range. Metal nanoparticle composite glasses were analyzed by the Z-scan method at the IR wavelength of NdiYAG laser radiation 1064 nm. The third order nonlinear susceptibility in the analyzed medium with simultaneous nonlinear refraction and absorption were considered as complex values. It is suggested that the samples with nonlinear absorption is perspective ones for optical applications. 

The metal ion - metal nanocluster ensemble sites can contain either one or two metal components. In different forms of copper and gold catalysts, the metal can exist in both forms, i.e., as metal ion and the metal nanocluster. These systems will be considered as a mono-element metal ion - metal nanocluster ensemble sites. However, as it will be demonstrated later, systems containing two elements are more common. In most of these systems the metal ions are formed from elements of well known red-ox metals, such as tin, rhenium, iron, tungsten, molybdenum, etc. while the metal nanoparticles are noble metals, such as platinum, ruthenium, etc. 

The authors of this review have found that the origin, composition and treatments of CuO-ZnO-AhOa commercial and laboratory-made catalysts strongly affected their phase composition and average crystallite sizes of CuO in the oxide form and Cu in the reduced form of catalysts, respectively. Catalytic activity and selectivity data obtained on laboratory-made catalysts suggests that co-precipitation provides intimate contact between copper and zinc resulting in the formation Cu -Cu ensembles sites that are active in the hydrogenolysis of fatty esters to alcohol. In agreement with literature data ZnO may play a role in the formation and stabilization of metal ion-metal nanoparticle ensemble sites. 

Choudhary BM, Madhi S, Chowdari NS, Kantam ML, Sreedhar B (2002) Copper-free Sonogashira reaction with transition-metal nanoparticles. J Am Chem Soc 124 14127... 

Metal nanoparticles can also be synthesized at a polarized liquid liquid interface. As a matter of fact, the first experimental evidence for heterogeneous electron transfer at an externally biased ITIES featured the electrodeposition of copper and silver [162]. More recently, Cheng and Schiffrin [163] demonstrated the formation of gold nanoparticles at the ITIES by reducing tetraoctylammonium tetrachloroaurate dissolved in DCE by aqu-... 

Optical properties of copper nanoparticles are quite remarkable because the energy of the dipolar mode of surface collective electron plasma oscillations (surface plasmon resonance or SPR) coincides with the onset of interband transition. Therefore, optical spectroscopy gives an opportunity to study the particle-size dependence of both valence and conduction electrons. The intrinsic size effect in metal nanoparticles, caused by size and interface damping of the SPR, is revealed experimentally by two prominent effects a red shift of the surface plasmon band and its broadening. 

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