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The Kinetic Rate Law for the Autocatalytic Growth of Citrate‐Stabilized Silver Nanoparticles
Author(s) -
Kytsya Andriy,
Bazylyak Liliya,
Hrynda Yuriy,
Horechyy Andriy,
Medvedevdkikh Yuriy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of chemical kinetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.341
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1097-4601
pISSN - 0538-8066
DOI - 10.1002/kin.20913
Subject(s) - chemistry , autocatalysis , nucleation , reagent , kinetic energy , alkali metal , nanoparticle , inorganic chemistry , hydrazine (antidepressant) , kinetics , reaction rate constant , homogeneous , chemical engineering , thermodynamics , catalysis , chromatography , organic chemistry , physics , engineering , quantum mechanics
ABSTRACT The formation of sodium citrate stabilized spherical silver nanoparticles synthesized by homogeneous nucleation in aqua solutions was monitored by the method of direct potentiometry. It was observed that the kinetic curve of Ag + ions reduction can be described by the Finke–Watzky (FW) autocatalytic two–step mechanism in the case of a large excess of hydrazine and NaOH. To expand the FW minimalistic model, the impact of the starting concentrations of the reagents on the kinetics of Ag nanoparticles synthesis was studied. It was determined that the nucleation stage is limited by the homogeneous process of ions Ag + reduction, and the reaction orders for the all reagents are calculated. A surface–dependent model of Ag nanoparticle growth is proposed, which takes into account the change in the hydrazine and alkali concentrations; the rate constants of the pseudoelementary reactions are also calculated.