The Synthesis of Size-and Color-Controlled Silver Nanoparticles by Using Microwave Heating and their Enhanced Catalytic Activity by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance

摘要

Clean energy production, organic transformations through energy-conserving processes, and efficient disposal of harmful waste are desirable from the point of view of reducing environmental problems, such as global warming and air and water pollution. Supported metallic nanoparticle (NP) catalysts are widely recognized as an important class of industrial catalysts that resolve the above issues.1'1 Significant efforts have recently been devoted to achieving NPs with precise architectures, in which the size, composition and morphology are controlled; changes to these parameters enable the catalytic activity and selectivity of such catalysts to be tuned. The development of synthetic methods to provide NPs suitable for particular catalytic reactions is important.