In this HOT article Merwe Albrecht and co-workers from BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Germany, have studied the formation and growth of hydroxylamine reduced silver nanoparticles using simultaneous Raman and UV/Vis spectroscopy. Based on these results, a mechanism for the particle formation was proposed.
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Simultaneous UV/Vis spectroscopy and surface enhanced Raman scattering of nanoparticle formation and aggregation in levitated droplets
Jonas Schenk, Lisa Tröbs, Franziska Emmerling, Janina Kneipp, Ulrich Panne and Merwe Albrecht
Anal. Methods, 2012, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C2AY05744A