AuAg alloy clusters protected with octadecanethiol (ODT) monolayers form crystalline solids whose powder X-ray diffractograms can be indexed to single cubic unit cells. These solids can also be regarded as superlattices of alloy clusters. The bulk Au:Ag ratio is significantly different from the metal salt feed ratio used for the synthesis of the alloy clusters. The surface plasmon resonance ban...

Previous investigations suggested that sulphide layers on pure silver surfaces were easily removed with a reducing plasma afterglow at atmospheric pressure, but harder to remove silver-copper alloys. In this study we investigated by synchrotron x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy the effect of tarnished silver, copper and sterling alloy. The results confirmed was able reduce in depth all sulphides...

Introduction: The process of mixing metals with non metals is called alloying, and the resulting mixture alloy. Alloys are composed of at least two elements, from which one must be metal. They are divided into alloys for fixed partial dentures-FPD (golden, golden-platinum, silver-palladium alloys, alloys for soldering and alloys for metal-ceramic dentures). Purpose: the main purpose is to inves...

Tailoring of plasmon resonances is essential for applications in anticounterfeiting. This readily achieved by tuning the composition alloyed metal clusters; simplest case, binary alloys are used. Yet, one challenge correlation cluster morphology and with changing optoelectronic properties. Hitherto, early stages alloy nanocluster formation immiscible systems such as silver copper have been acce...

Bimetallic nanoparticles have emerged up as advanced nanomaterials due to the synergism between two metallic nanoparticles in core-shell or alloy arrangement. Moreover, bioinspired synthesis of nanoparticles is an evergreen approach of nanobiosciences. In this experiment, we have fabricated silver, gold and silver (core) gold (shell) bimetallic nanoparticles using leaf extract of Catharanthus r...

The method of fabricating metallic nanowires from directionally solidified eutectics was applied to the silver–copper system. The silver–copper lloy, 39.9 at.% copper, was directionally solidified in a Bridgman-type oven held at 850 ◦C. SEM imaging revealed a mixed fibrous and lamellar icrostructure. The fastest solidification rates produced fibres and lamellae with widths as small as 300 nm. E...

A series of bimetallic silver-palladium catalysts supported on titania were prepared by wet impregnation and assessed for the direct synthesis of hydrogen peroxide, and its subsequent side reactions. The addition of silver to a palladium catalyst was found to significantly decrease hydrogen peroxide productivity and hydrogenation, but crucially increase the rate of decomposition. The decomposit...

Nanoparticles (NPs) of noble metals, namely gold and silver, remain promising anticancer agents capable of enhancing current surgery- and chemotherapeutic-based approaches in cancer treatment. Bimetallic AgAu composition can be used as a more effective agent due to the synergetic effect. Among the physicochemical parameters affecting gold and silver nanoparticle biological activity, a primary c...

In this article, it is shown that the efficiency of an electrochemical aptasensing device is influenced by the use of different nanoparticles (NPs) such as gold nanoparticles (Au), silver nanoparticles (Ag), hollow gold nanospheres (HGN), hollow silver nanospheres (HSN), silver–gold core shell (Ag@Au), gold–silver core shell (Au@Ag), and silver–gold alloy nanoparticles (Ag/Au). Among these nano...