Preparation of silver decorated silica nanocomposite rods for catalytic and surface-enhanced Raman scattering applications

• Published in: RSC advances Vol. 5; no. 65; pp. 52726 - 52736
• Main Authors: Zhao, Kai, Wu, Chengjiao, Deng, Ziwei, Guo, Yingcen, Peng, Bo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015

This paper describes a straightforward approach for the decoration of Ag nanoparticles onto the surface of mesoporous silica nanorods (denoted as SiO 2 @Ag nanocomposite rods), in which polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) serves as both a reductant and stabilizer. In this approach, mesoporous silica nanorods...