Preparation of Silica Coated AgBr

Nanoparticle in Acidic Condition by

Microemulsion Method.
 OUTLINE
Introduction
Preparation
Characterization
 Introduction
Our present technology would be very different without the silica
for the catalysts for oil refineries, for the molds for casting the
super-alloys in our jet engines, for modern glass and ceramics,
electronic microcircuits, quartz crystals, and fiber optics.
Thats why in Nanotech age, Silica nanospheres has a great
importance in all most all field of science and technology.
Nanoparticles are mainly prepared by microemulsion method.
A microemulsion is a thermodynamically stable dispersion of two
immiscible fluids; the system is stabilized by added surfactant(s).
Particles growth, size and shape are well controlled in
microemulsion methods.
 Silica Coating
Silica nanosphere have potential applications in drug delivery,
ultrasound imaging, catalysts, adsorptive filters.
Recently hollow nanoparticles is used for the encapsulation of
active biomolecules (enzymes).
Micro-encapsulation is a process in which tiny particles or
droplets are surrounded by a coating to give small capsules many
useful properties.
1. Silica coatings are robust
2. water soluble
3. It can prevent or minimize the aggregation of the
coated particles.
4. Silica is also optically transparent and biocompatible
5. The thickness of silica coating can be controlled.
 Review
Many research has been done on Silica coating of different
nanoparticles in both acidic and basic medium.
Here we focused on acidic medium for preparation of Silica coated
AgBr nanoparticles.
Khoabane et al, 2005 has synthesized Silica tubes and
spheres in the presence of oxalate ions. The silica is
influenced by synthesis conditions (temperature,
oxalic acid and ammonia concentration, amount of
water, length of ageing time, and length of time for
TEOS hydrolysis).
He found that the oxalate ions form two types of
templates, with rod-like templates favored at high
concentration and sphere shaped templates at lower
concentrations.
 Review
Jiang et al, 2004 were prepared silver nanoparticles in an
acid-catalyzed silica colloidal solution.
He found that the plasmon band of silver particles
supported on the surface of silica was considerably shifted
to a longer wavelength compared with a pure silver
solution.
The shift in the absorption band basically resulted from
surface effects, size effects and irregular shape
Feng et al, 2000 were prepared mesoporous silica templated
by microemulsion liquid crystal.
 Objective

To prepare Silica coated AgBr nanoparticle in

acidic medium with different PH
Charecterization by
SEM
TEM
DLS
UV-V Spectrometer.
 Preparation
Silica coated AgBr particles are prepared by reverse CTAB
microemulsion method.
Here AgBr core is prepared first and silica coated given to
it at PH < 7.
The ratio of the component
Oil CTAB Butanol AgNO3 (R = 5)
3.3 0.291 0.591 0.072
H2O/ TEOS =4-6
 Characteristic
Now this prepared silica coated AgBr nanoparticles images were
taken by SEM.From it we can see that particles were formed.
 Work to Be Done

To see effect of particles size on changing PH by DLS

Particles characterization by TEM and SEM.
Absorbance of the wavelength By UV-V spectrometer.( in
time interval )
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 REFERENCE

Jiang J, C.Y. Liu, Y. Liu, Formation of silver nanoparticles in an

acid-catalyzed silica colloidal solution. App. Surface Sc. 233
(2004) 135140.
 Reason of coating
The core must be isolated from its surroundings
Retarding evaporation of a volatile core
Isolating a reactive core from chemical attack
To control the rate at which core leaves. (Drug release)