Silver is a less expensive noble metal. Superior alkynophilicity due to π-coordination with the carbon-carbon triple bond makes silver salts ideal catalysts for alkyne-based organic reactions. This review highlights the progress in alkyne chemistry via silver catalysis primarily over the past five years (ca. 2010-2014). The discussion is developed in terms of the bond type formed with the acety...

Deposition of silver onto British 2p coins has been demonstrated as an efficient and cost effective approach to producing substrates capable of promoting surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Silver application to the copper coins is undemanding taking just 20 s, and results in the formation of multiple hierarchial dendritic structures. To demonstrate that the silver deposition sites were c...

A fourth century BCE silver jewellery collection, which is part of two hoards of Samarian coins (the Samaria and Nablus Hoards), was studied by non-destructive analyses. The collection, which consists of pendants, rings, beads and earrings, had been examined by visual testing, multi-focal microscopy and SEM-EDS analysis. In order to enhance our knowledge of past technologies of silver jewellery...

'Click reactions' are the copper catalysed dipolar cycloaddition reaction of azides and alkynes to incorporate nitrogens into a cyclic hydrocarbon scaffold forming a triazole ring. Owing to its efficiency and versatility, this reaction and the products, triazole-containing heterocycles, have immense importance in medicinal chemistry. Copper is the only known catalyst to carry out this reaction,...

Recent advances in the development of plasma etchers for silicon has brought machines to the market which are able to etch silicon with high etch rates (>5 μm min−1) at high anisotropy (taper of sidewalls <1.5◦). Micromachined silicon is therefore not only suitable for applications in micromechanics but it can also fill the gap which exists between conventional macromachining (milling, turning)...

Copper (I) and silver (I) oxides crystallize with the same structure, and both show a wide range of negative thermal expansion (NTE): Cu2O contracts with temperature up to about 200K and then expands, while Ag2O has a NTE up to its decomposition temperature at about 450K. Here we report a careful temperature-dependent pair distribution function (PDF) analysis that showed that copper oxide, at a...

The existence of a disorder-induced metal-insulator transition (MIT) has been proved in cooled silver and copper nanoparticles by using level spacing statistics. Nanoparticles are obtained by employing molecular dynamics simulations. Results show that structural disorder is not strong enough to affect their electronic character, and it remains in the metallic regime. Whereas, electronic propert...

Copper and silver, respectively, were introduced into single crystals of CsCdF3. Our detailed electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) study showed that both elements enter the Cd lattice site-copper as Cu2+, silver as Ag+, which then was converted into AgH by x raying the corresponding samples. Cu2+ and Ai+ were shown to present in their ground state a pseudostatic J ahn-Teller effect. Motional e...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of primers on bonding between a silver-palladium-copper-gold alloy and an indirect composite material. Cast disks were air-abraded with alumina, conditioned with one of five primers (Alloy Primer, Luna-Wing Primer, Metal Primer II, Metaltite, M.L. Primer), and bonded with a light-activated indirect composite. Shear bond strengths were determi...

Two commercially available silver inks were inkjet printed to fabricate the seed tracks (seed layers) of radio frequency (RF) circuit structures on a high frequency substrate material. One of them is a nanoparticle based ink, and the other, a non-particle based organic silver complex ink. Subsequent to printing, these seed layers were copper plated using an electroless copper plating process, t...