Synthesis of AgCu and Ag-Cu2O Alloy Nanoparticles Using Process of Simultaneous Cations Reduction Mediated Polyol

Abstract

The Ag –Cu core shell was synthesized by reducing the two mixed cations in the polyal solution containing the reducer agent and the stabilizer. By using the controlled silver-copper nanoparticles to form alloyed nanoparticles, the core Ag−Cu and Ag−Cu2O nanostructures can be obtained within a range of 25−59 nm. The results showed that synthesized silver/Cu core shell nanoparticles cause significant inhibition to bacterial cell when compared with controls at low concentration. Significant Higher anti-bacterial was observed at very low concentration (0.0125 μg/ ml). Whereas. The obtained morphology and composition of the nanostructures were analyzed using SEM, EDS, FTIR, and XRD. Particles sizes distributions was showed a maximum at 35nm and minimum particles sizes at 6 nm