Journal
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
Volume 108, Issue -, Pages 90-94Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.02.023
Keywords
Ocimum sanctum; Reduction; Nanoparticles; CTAB; Morphology
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In this paper we have reported the spectrophotometeric and transmission electron microscopic (TEM) data to the shape-directing role of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) on the green extra-cellular synthesis of bio-conjugated Ag-nanoparticles using Ocimum sanctum leaves extract TEM images revealed that the nanoparticles are mostly spherical (average particle size ranged from 18 to 35 nm) with some truncated triangular nanoplates, aggregated in a beautiful manner to yield locket-like silver and capped by a thin layer of biomolecules of O. sanctum, whereas nanoparticles are highly poly-dispersed in presence of CTAB. The shape and position of wavelength maxima strongly depends on the reaction time, [leaves extract] and [CTAB]. The visual observations also suggest that the prefect transparent silver sol becomes turbid in presence of CTAB after some time. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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