Abstract:
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were prepared by using the reducing agent sodium borohydride
with the precursor silver nitrate
and stabilized by trisodium citrate. The increase in
concentrations of Silver nitrate significantly changes the color from colorless to light yellow to
brown due to their physical properties of silver nanoparticles in the starting reduction process
begin. The color change observed in the synthesis process suggests the formation of silver
nanoparticles. The resulting AgNPs were characterized by X-ray Diffraction, UV–Vis
Spectrophotometry and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy techniques. In this study, the
effects of concentrations of silver nitrate on the band gap energy, absorption, and transmission of
the silver nanoparticles were investigated. It was found that the increasing concentration of silver
nitrate resulted in an increasing absorption of silver nanoparticles, but its absorption peak
observed at different wavelength, 414 nm, 411 nm, 409 nm, 395 nm, and 400 nm. The UV-Vis
spectrum results showed the highest absorption peaks at 400 nm in solutions with a volume ratio
of 5 mM,, which showed the localized surface Plasmon resonance (LSPR) characteristics of
silver nanoparticles. The optical direct band gap energy was decreased from 2.72 eV to 2.5 eV as
silver nitrate concentration increased from 1 mM to 5 mM. The optical direct band gap of silver
nanoparticles calculated by the Tauc plot model, which indicates band gap of synthesized silver
nanoparticles more than band gap energy of bulk silver. This higher value of band-gap might be
due to a decrease overlapping of energy levels depend on its small number of atoms and also was
known the crystalline size structure of silver nanoparticles used XRD was got 13 nm. Finally,
from the FTIR measurements, we have observed that the transmission of infrared decreases as
concentration increases. But the molecular vibration of the AgNPs shows the same functional
group with increase the concentration of silver nitrate. Molecular vibration of the silver
nanoparticles showed high coherency at different concentrations.