Theoretical considerations over the production of silver nanoparticles by laser ablation confined in distilled water

David Omar Oseguera-Galindo; María Teresa Valenzuela-López; Andrea Monserrat Carrillo-Flores; Eden Oceguera-Contreras; Sebastián Negrete-Aragón

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.12.046007

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19 October 2018 Theoretical considerations over the production of silver nanoparticles by laser ablation confined in distilled water

David Omar Oseguera-Galindo, María Teresa Valenzuela-López, Andrea Monserrat Carrillo-Flores, Eden Oceguera-Contreras, Sebastián Negrete-Aragón

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J. of Nanophotonics, 12(4), 046007 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.12.046007

Abstract

Laser ablation of a silver target confined in distilled water allowed us to obtain silver nanoparticles. However, to have knowledge of their production by this method, common instruments for measurement of the silver concentration in a colloidal solution are employed, this is due to laser ablation and is usually considered a top-down physical approach in the synthesis of nanoparticles. In consequence, this research has suggested an alternative to know the silver nanoparticles production through theoretical considerations, which depends on laser parameters and intrinsic properties of a silver target. Theoretically, this result has given us a silver concentration around 0.029 mg ml^− 1 and from of transmission electron micrographs were obtained a size distribution, where it was fitted with one Gaussian peak, being the smaller sizes the most frequent. The mean peak was centered at 12 nm, having a nanoparticle mass of 7 × 10^− 18 g, and regarding a relation with the silver concentration, the nanoparticles production was around 4 × 10¹² nanoparticles ml^− 1.

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David Omar Oseguera-Galindo, María Teresa Valenzuela-López, Andrea Monserrat Carrillo-Flores, Eden Oceguera-Contreras, and Sebastián Negrete-Aragón "Theoretical considerations over the production of silver nanoparticles by laser ablation confined in distilled water," Journal of Nanophotonics 12(4), 046007 (19 October 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.12.046007

Received: 27 April 2018; Accepted: 2 October 2018; Published: 19 October 2018

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