The Radiational Chemical Reduction of Silver Ions in Water Suspensions of Poly(vinyltriazole): The Kinetic Peculiarities of the Formation of Nanoparticles

Abstract The radiational chemical production of silver nanoparticles offers promising prospects for the synthesis of the antibacterial materials in the matrix of the nontoxic poly(vinyltriazole). Use of the optical spectroscopy for the electronic transmission microscopy shows that nanoparticles of the average size of 4 nm are formed in the radiated suspensions of poly(1-vinyl-1,2,4-triazole). The analysis of the data of the optical spectroscopy reveals that nanoparticles are formed in several stages. At the first stage, the formation of clusters is prevalent and the second stage provides the assembly of nanoparticles through the reduction of silver ions on the surface of the clusters.