Preparation of nanostructure silver powders by mechanical decomposing and mechanochemical reduction of silver oxide

The mechanical decomposing and mechanochemical reductions of silver oxide for preparation of nanocrystalline silver powders by high planetary ball mill was investigated. XRD and HRSEM techniques were used to characterize the structural evolution and morphological changes of products. The results show that the nanostructured silver with an average crystallite size of 14 nm and internal strain of 0.75% is synthesized by mechanical decomposing of Ag2O after 95 h milling. While, the product of mechanochemical reduction of silver oxide using graphite after 22 h milling is nanostructured silver with an average crystallite size of 28 nm and internal strain of 0.44%.

Production of nanocrystalline silver particles by hydrogen reduction of silver nitrate aerosol droplets

Nanocrystalline silver particles were produced by hydrogen reduction of silver nitrate aerosol droplets formed by high frequency ultrasonic generator.The dependences of the particle size,morphology and crystallite size on the precursor concentration and the reaction temperature were investigated.Ultrasonic spray pyrolysis process was combined with hydrogen reduction to research the effects on the silver particle production.Nanocrystalline silver particles including slight oxide structure were prepared at temperature as low as 200 ℃ from silver nitrate under hydrogen atmosphere.X-ray diffraction（XRD） studies showed that pure silver particles were obtained above 200 ℃ reaction temperature.The crystallite sizes of the samples ranged from 29 to 47 nm.The results indicate that the crystallite sizes hardly ever depended on the reaction temperature.Crystallites slightly enlarged by increasing precursor concentration.SEM observations showed that particles were obtained in spherical morphology with particle sizes between 210 and 525 nm.Reaction temperature and precursor concentration strongly influenced the particle size.

A novel strategy for improving upconversion luminescence of NaYF4：Yb, Er nanocrystals by coupling with hybrids of silver plasmon nanostructures and poly（methyl methacrylate） photonic crystals

The coupling of upconversion nanophosphors （UCNPs） with the surface plasmonic resonance （SPR） of noble metals is a promising way to improve luminescent efficiency of UCNPs; however, it is still a challenge to achieve stable, reproducible and effective upconversion luminescence （UCL） enhancement through such coupling. In this work, we present a novel strategy to improve UCL of NaYF4：ybB,Er3. UCNPs, by combining the near-field coupling of SPR of silver and the far-field coupling of poly（methyl methacrylate） （PMMA） opal photonic crystals （OPCs） with the UCNPs. In order to control the effective interaction distance between the UCNPs and the SPR, a porous silver film consisting of randomly distributed silver nanoparticles （NPs） （〉 100 nm） was prepared which demonstrated strong SPR over a broad wavelength range, and its coupling to the UCNPs was found to be much stronger than that of a dense film. In the far-field coupling of OPCs, the photonic stop band （PSB） of the PMMA OPCs was tuned to 980 nm, matching exactly the excitation light. By modulating the particle size of the UCNPs, and the direction and excitation power of the incident light, a maximum enhancement of 60-fold was observed, which is an important advance for metaMnduced UCL enhancement systems.