The Preparation and Optical Properties of Ag/ZnO Composite Materials

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A simple, two-step fabrication technique was presented to prepare the Ag/ZnO hybrid nanostructures using silver nitrate and zinc nitrate. Silver particles were synthesized by chemical reduction method and the ZnO layer was coated on the surface of silver using wet chemical method. The microstructure, the composition and the optical properties of the obtained materials were further characterized by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and fluorescence (FL) spectroscopy. The results showed that the silver and zinc oxide composite had been successful prepared. The intensity of fluorescence showed an enhancement of R6G (dye) indicate that ZnO shell had an improvement on the silver metal enhance fluorescence.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 875-877)

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232-236

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February 2014

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