Effects of Different Reducing Agents and Protective Agents on the Preparation of Nano-Silver Powder

Abstract:

Solution chemical reduction method is a means which used reducing agent in aqueous or organic systems to deoxidize silver ions. Its essence is an integrated process of the electrochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics and fluid dynamics and so on. The process determines the physical and chemical properties such as the size distribution of powder, purity and reunion situations, etc. Nano-silver powder has high surface activity and catalytic properties, and is widely used to a lot of fields. So it has very important realistic significance to study the preparation method. In this paper, nano-silver powder was prepared with industrial AgNO3 as raw materials, sodium borohydride or hydrazine hydrate as reducing agent, polyvinyl alcohol, SDBS or polyvinylpyrrolidone(PVP) as the surface protective agent by solution chemical reduction method. The influences of different reducing agents and protective agents on the preparation of nano-silver were analyzed. The results from the XRD diffraction analysis and TEM show that it can be obtained high purity flake nano-silver in the reaction temperature range of 50-60°C.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 512-515)
• Pages: 136-140
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.512-515.136
• Online since: June 2012
• Authors: Feng Rui Zhai, Yi Ming Liu, Zhong Zhou Yi, Hong Wei Zhang, Min Lu
• Keywords: Nano-Silver, Preparation, Protective Agent, Reducing Agent

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