The silver/ammonia complex could be oxidized through the polyamide chains, and consequently, the silver ions could be reduced to Ag NPs.
Based on the available reports, heating causes the movement of silver particles on the support and consequently their adhesion.
Silver birch lines expressing quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides L). caffeate/5-hydroxyferulate O-methyltransferase (PtCOMT) under the 35S cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) promoter showed a reduction in the relative expression of a putative silver birch COMT (BpCOMT) gene and, consequently, a decrease in the lignin syringyl/guaiacyl composition ratio.
However, at CuCl2 concentration ≈4 mM, the selective oxidative etching of Ag seeds occurs and consequently, the remaining multiply-twinned particles in the presence of PVP, as capping agent, can effectively grow into one dimensional silver nanostructures (nanowire/nanorod).
This would be expected as step 5 is darker and consequently has more silver.
In the case of Ag-Au nanoshells, the higher electron affinity of gold may lead to a stronger gold-citrate interaction at the nanoparticle surface compared with that in the citrate-capped silver nanoparticles, consequently improving size and shape homogeneity and long-term stability.
It is determined that the antioxidant prevents the formation of a silver oxide layer on the AgNPs surface and consequently formation of the Ag+ reservoir.
However, it was not possible to study the degradation products formed at the several layer interfaces and consequently to assess the pigment/binder effects on silver degradation since oxidized forms of silver were converted into metallic silver under the beam exposure.
Incubation in hydrogen chloride (HCl) vapor can eliminate oxidized surface, and consequently, reduce largely the resistivity of silver nanowire thin films.
It may be anticipated that a bacterial cell in contact with silver nanoparticles takes in silver ions, which inhibit a respiratory enzyme(s), facilitating the generation of reactive oxygen species and consequently damaging the cell [62].
