Isha Saini; Annu Sharma; Naveneet Chandak; Sanjeev Aggarwal; Pawan K. Sharma
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Silver (Ag) nanoparticles play a significant role in nanomaterials science and technology due to many peculiarities. One of the main characteristic of Ag nanoparticles is the occurrence of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) due to the collective oscillation of free electrons in visible region. Due to this ...
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Silver (Ag) nanoparticles play a significant role in nanomaterials science and technology due to many peculiarities. One of the main characteristic of Ag nanoparticles is the occurrence of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) due to the collective oscillation of free electrons in visible region. Due to this distinctive feature Ag nanoparticles have numerous applications such as in catalysis, surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy, photonics, solar cells etc. In the present work, no additional stabilizing agent has been used. The characteristic SPR peak appears at around 405 nm in UV-Visible absorption spectra of PVA-Ag nanocomposite films, thereby confirming the nanocomposite formation. The synthesized nanocomposite films were structurally characterized using fourier transform infrared (FTIR) and Raman spectroscopy. FTIR spectra of PVA-Ag nanocomposite film indicates that PVA matrix is modified by Ag nanoparticles which is in agreement with the results obtained using Raman spectroscopy. TEM as well as FE-SEM micrographs reveal that Ag nanoparticles are mostly spherical in shape. The knoop microhardness number of the nanocomposites was found to increase from 2.4 Kgf/mm2 for PVA to 12.1 kgf/mm2 for PVA-Ag nanocomposite film loaded with 0.062 wt% Ag nanoparticles. Copyright © 2018 VBRI Press.
Gyanendra K. Pandey; Nilesh K. Pathak; R. P. Sharma
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Optical properties of Au metal nanoparticle have been studied in terms of extinction (scattering+absorption) at the resonance wavelength from UV to IR region. For the spherical geometry having radius 10nm, local electric field intensity distribution were studied at wavelength 615nm. This enhanced field ...
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Optical properties of Au metal nanoparticle have been studied in terms of extinction (scattering+absorption) at the resonance wavelength from UV to IR region. For the spherical geometry having radius 10nm, local electric field intensity distribution were studied at wavelength 615nm. This enhanced field has been couples in the SERS where we increase the sensitivity of the surface to detect a single biomolecule which is adsorbed at the surface of metal nanoparticle. The field profile was studied using COMOL-5.2 which works on the principle of electrodynamics in which the solution of Maxwell’s equation with certain boundary condition is solved. Optimized physical and geometrical parameters was suggested for the application in the field of chemical and biomedical instrument development for the purpose of drug detection and disease diagnosis for cancer detection at the early stage. Copyright © 2018 VBRI Press.
