I have gone through some of the literature where there is written that it's possible that bimetallic nanoparticles may give no characteristic UV peak even though the individual metals may at certain wavelength. I want to understand this phenomena a in bit detail. Is it true or is it not. If true then what is the reason behind that..?
The visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation observed the interaction of photons with surface plasmons nanoparticles Ag, Au, platinum group metals. W ool can be dyed with gold nanoparticles. For bimetallic nanoparticles observed only one lane swallowing like a monometallic particles. Once it is shifted compared to monometallic. Bimetallic nanoparticles may give no visible spectrum characteristic peak. Hence, not the interaction of photons with surface plasmons nanoparticles. Wool can not be dyed with this nanoparticles.
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Mrs/Miss/Mr Ain,
This depends on the element and its oxidation state in the corresponding NPs.
Dear Prof. Bojidarka B. Ivanova,
This is the visible spectrum of bimetallic nanoparticles. They give only metal nanoparticles having a plasmon resonance property. What oxidized state do you mean?
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Mr. Mirgorod,
Let us starti with the fact that AuxAgy NPs, in particiular, exhibit lmax at about 480-440 nm. But in the case of the Mr. Ain's NPs there are not characteristic bands.
On the other hand, these NPs are obtained as non-stoichiometric AgxAuy compositions (x, y are within a wide range).
The quantification of such as compositions, in general, is difficult due to the fact that there is experimentally observed a broad oxidation peak of Ag. Furthermore this difficult the quantitation of the particle size as well. Electrochemical studies, for example, have shown a charge over the Ag ca. 10-14 C.This essentially assumes a different from '0' oxidation state.
Despite the fact that Au0 and Ag0 are with formal oxidation state '0' there are many evidences assuming 'CT effects'. In addition, there is a large body of literature devoted to theoretical elucidation in this context.
You should bear in mind that such as localized charges absent in cases of neutral monometallic particles (Nevertheless they are occurred in monometallic monocationic clusters of type [Mn]+ in gas - phase). Or this phenomenon is typical for multimetallic compositions in a general neutral state. In addition to many more phenomena which can occur in M1M2M-Mn alloys, again, in a general context. So these are properties addressed to the alloys. Despite the fact that alloys could have NPs sizes, of course.
(NB! We are talking about NPs of alloyds, not NPs of Agx@Auy)
So the questions about the oxidation state and charge (re)distribution/transfer (?!) in alloys are far from well understood. Moreover in so simple as electronic configurations elements like Au and Ag. There are even more complex cases of ''alloys''.
Do you known the nature of M-M bonds (?!) in a composition like Ag0.25Au0.75 with a localized charge on Ag? Because of there is lack of literature data.
In this context, in general, employment of UV-VIS spectroscopy studying the chemistry of such as compositions is completely unsuitable, even this is high speculative task. By contrast, a complementary employment of electrochemistry and quantum chemistry both experimentally and theoretically, should provide significantly more meaningfull information. Because of the fact that there are obtained non-stoichiometric compositions difficults employment of powder XRD as well as, due to lack of references.
I would like to look at two plasmon peak in hybrid like Ag0.25Au0.75 with a localized charge on Ag.
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Mr. Mirgorod,
I, in particular, have no measurements, furthermore the system is also an example of alloy with stoichiometry 1:3. But there are data in the literature about non-stoichiometric Ag0.17Au0.84, for example, and many more non-stoichiometric compositions and variations. In spite of in this case also lies the question associated with electronic configurations, in addition to questions reflecting charge localization andthus the oxidation state of such as bimetallic alloys and their NPs.
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