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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 7.
Published in final edited form as: RSC Adv. 2014;4(94):52279–52288. doi: 10.1039/C4RA07581A

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Representative optical images and UV-vis absorption spectra of Ag-Au BNPs with increasing Au fractional composition as determined by EDX. All spectra are normalized to their localized surface plasmon peak maxima. The nanoparticles were prepared by heating 1 mL of ≈ 1 nM (OD ≈ 12) 22 nm Ag nanoparticles to ∼ 100 °C and adding HAuCl4 (1 to 8 μL; 0.1 M) to the hot solution. The inset is a digital photograph of Ag and Ag-Au (made with 2 ×10-4 M, 4 × 10-4 M, 6 × 10-4 M, and 8 × 10-4 M of HAuCl4) nanoparticles. For the UV-vis absorption spectra, the black solid line at 400 nm represents Ag nanoparticles and the dotted lines correspond to Ag-Au nanoparticles made with 2 × 10-4 M, 4 × 10-4 M, 6× 10-4 M, and 8 × 10-4 M of HAuCl4, respectively.