These positive PDMS templates exhibit the extreme water repellency (superhydrophobic) along with the same surface structural features as the lotus leaves shown in Figure 1a–d and f. Ī rough surface of lotus leaves was etched into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and a negative PDMS template was made, and then, the negative template was used to make a positive PDMS reproduced as a replica sheet of the original lotus leaf.
Similarly, nanomaterials show the self-cleaning phenomena that are controlled by various parameters, i.e., surface fractal dimension, surface morphology, and dynamic-wetting behaviors, responsible for the super hydrophobic character in them. Lotus leaves are super hydrophobic due to high contact angle (122 o) of water droplets to lotus leaf surface and presence of the needle-shaped wax tubes in these leaves, (a smaller-sized roughness region of 0.3–1.7 μm with Dof 1.48) besides normal leaves pattern. Nanomaterials are changing their electrical, optical, surface-related, mechanical, and magnetic properties at nanoscale and exhibits some prominent effects that are associated with nanoparticles, as mentioned below. Here, quantum mechanics dominates in place of classical mechanics. Some qualities (gravitational forces, vapour pressure and boiling point) of the nanoparticles decreases with their particle size and became insignificant at nanoscale because the electromagnetic force of protons is 10 36 times stronger than gravitational forces. Due to the reduction in the spatial dimension, confinement of these quasi particles in a particular crystallographic direction within a structure generally leads to changes in physical properties of the system in that direction. Therefore, the Vander Waals forces make the materials “sticky”. Moreover, the gravity becomes a markedly less significant force at the nanoscale, while the Vander Waals forces became incredibly strong. Nanoparticles exhibited some extra phenomenon, i.e., random motion of the small particles, quantum tunneling, discreteness of energy, uncertainty of the matter, duality nature of mass, and energy for wave particles, etc. Surface area to volume ratio of the particle depends on the size and shape of an object here, the size of the nanoparticle is very small in at least one dimension. The novel properties of nano-objects occur due to the changes in size and scale. Because at the nanoscale, the materials behave differently and they emerge with few novel characters in themselves, such as some of the materials become explosive (for example, aluminum) or their melting point changes (for example, silver and gold) or a new property is revealed (for example, nanosilver possess the antibacterial character and becomes an odor eater). A bulk material has constant physical properties regardless of their size and shape, but at the nanoscale, the size, morphological substructure of the substance, and shape (as well as aspect ratios) are the major driving factors for changing their biological, chemical, and physical properties. Nanoparticles can be served as a strong bridge between the bulk materials and atomic or molecular structures. Greek Nano word used for “dwarf” means one-billionth. In a particle world, nanoparticles had attracted an immense attraction of the scientific world due to their large surface area to volume ratio and high reactivity with unmatchable properties. Future prospective and challenges in the field commercialization of the nanosilver is also discussed. In this article, we will discuss the synthesis, characterization, and application of the silver nanoparticles. Out of these, we have selected the silver nanoparticles for the studies. The whole incidence is known as localized surface plasmonic resonance.
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The main cause behind this phenomenon is attributed to the collective oscillations of the free conductive electrons that are induced by an interaction with electromagnetic field.
Nanoparticles of alkali metals and noble metals (copper, silver, platinum, palladium, and gold, etc.) have a broad absorption band in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum of light, because the solutions of these metal nanoparticles show the intense color, which is absent in their bulk counterparts as well as their atomic level. Day by day augmenting importance of metal nanoparticles in the versatile fields like, catalyst, electronic, magnetic, mechanic, optical optoelectronic, materials for solar cell and fuel cell, medical, bioimaging, cosmetic, ultrafast data communication and optical data storage, etc, is increasing their value.
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