Micelles as Supercages for Bimetallic Nanoparticles Synthesis| Chapter 8 | Recent Progress in Science and Technology Vol. 2

 The bettering of the bimetallic nanoparticles characteristics depends the ability to tune the alloy arrangement and surface features, which requires an progressive control of the synthetic design. We carried out a calculating simulation study on the formation of bimetallic nanoparticles apiece microemulsion route. A comprehensive reasoning of the resulting nanostructures was acted in the light of the influence of intermicellar exchange on reactivity. For a couple of metals whose dissimilarity in standard reduction potentials is about 0.2- 0.3 V, and utilizing a quite flexible surfactant, the response rate of each metal was listened versus occasion using different catalyst proportions. It was confirmed that reaction rates depends not only on the synthetic reduction rate but also on intermicellar rate of exchange, because the intermicellar exchange plays as drug pump, which results in an growth of slower forerunners within micelles, with improving the slower synthetic reduction. So the duller reduction rate strongly depends on the portion of reactants in micelles. On the contrary, faster reduction rate is just restricted by the intermicellar rate of exchange, and no reactants accumulation takes place. This different interaction between two together metal decline rates and the compartmentalization of the reaction media have key consequences on the sequence of metals decline. Hence different precursor portions leads to different sequences of metals decline, so the arrangement of two together metals in the resulting nanostructure can be maneuvered just by changing the forerunner proportions.

Author(s) Details:

C. Tojo,
Physical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vigo, E-36310, Vigo, Spain.

E. Gonzalez,
Physical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vigo, E-36310, Vigo, Spain.

N. Vila-Romeu,
Physical Chemistry Department, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, E-32004, Ourense, Spain.

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