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This paper reports the synthesis of Au nanoparticles by 30-fs pulses irradiation of a sample containing HAuCl4 and chitosan, a biopolymer used as reducing agent and stabilizer. We observed that it is a multi-photon induced process, with a threshold irradiance of 3.8 × 1011 W/cm2 at 790 nm. By transmission electron microscopy we observed nanoparticles from 8 to 50 nm with distinct shapes. Infrared spectroscopy indicated that the reduction of gold and consequent production of nanoparticles is related to the fs-pulse induced oxidation of hydroxyl to carbonyl groups in chitosan.
1. Introduction
Research on synthesis, fabrication and processing of nanostructured materials has received a great deal of attention because of their potential applications in fundamental science and nanotechnology [1–5]. Several methods to produce metal nanoparticles, including chemical, photochemical and thermal have been developed to allow controlling size and shape of nanostructures [2, 6–9]. More recently, however, biomolecules and live organisms have also been utilized for the synthesis of Ag and Au nanoparticles [10–12]. The interest in such biosynthetic approach has been motivated because it can be easily controlled under mild conditions and does not introduce environmental toxicity or biological hazards [13–15]. At the same time, photochemical methods using cw irradiation of a solution containing metal ions with ultra-violet or blue light [13–15] has also been exploited as an interesting option to produced metal nanoparticles. Conversely, such type of irradiation can lead to undesirable photochemical reactions, which ultimately could change a desired property of the final product, affecting, for instance, the stabilizer that encapsulates the nanoparticles.
To overcome this potential drawback, in this paper we demonstrate the use of infrared fs-laser pulses to produce nanoparticles in a sample containing HAuCl4 and the biopolymer chitosan. Therefore, the method proposed here combines the advantage of a biosynthetic approach with the innovative and still unexplored use of infrared fs-pulses for the synthesis of nanoparticles. Chitosan was chosen because it is one of the most studied bio-macromolecules for the production nanoparticles. Moreover, it has been shown to act as a reducing agent and stabilizer in the nanoparticles synthesis (chemical or photochemical) [13–16]. In this study, the excitation was performed with 30-fs pulses at 790 nm, operating in the transparent region of the sample. Our results show that the production of Au nanoparticles is related to the multi-photon induced oxidation of chitosan and subsequent reduction of Au. The ability to synthesize Au nanoparticles by such nonlinear optical interaction opens new possibilities in this area, such as using pulse shaping methods to achieve control of the photochemical reaction.
2. Experimental
The production of Au nanoparticles was carried out employing chitosan as the stabilizer and reducing agent in the photoreduction of tetrachloroauric acid (HAuCl4) induced by femtosecond pulses at 790 nm. Chitosan [(1→4)-2 amino −2 -deoxy-β-D-glucan] is a linear cationic polysaccharide obtained by deacetylation of chitin [(1→4)-2 acetamide –2 –deoxy-β-D-glucan], which is normally found in crustaceans. However, it is not completely deacetylated, being therefore a copolymer of acetamide and amine groups. Chitosan was extracted from gray shrimps chitin using the method described in Ref [17], and purified by dissolution in acetic acid, precipitated in NH4OH and filtered using a 45 μm membrane. It has a molecular weight (Mw) of 8 × 104 g/mol, determined by viscometry [17], and a degree of acetylation (DA) of 14, determined by proton NMR using deuterated water. The molecular structure of chitosan is presented in the detail of Fig. 1 .
Fig. 1
The tetrachloroauric acid (HAuCl4) solution and acetic acid were purchased from Aldrich and used without further purification. A solution of chitosan in acetic acid (0.24 wt%) was prepared by adding 2 mL of glacial acetic acid to 0.1 g of chitosan and then diluting with 40 mL of ultrapure water while stirring. The aqueous solution of HAuCl4 (0.2 wt%) was mixed with the chitosan solution in a 1:3 volume ratio at room temperature, which corresponds to an equimolar proportion of chitosan repeating units to Au. The sample was placed in a 2-mm path-length quartz cuvette for linear and nonlinear optical experiments.
As the excitation source for the photo-reduction, we used 30-fs pulses from a multi-pass amplifier (790 nm and 1 kHz repetition rate). To monitor the dynamics of Au nanoparticles formation, we measured the time evolution of the plasmon absorption band using a pump-probe scheme, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The sample is excited by a laser beam with a diameter of 1.6-mm and irradiances varying from 4 × 1011 W/cm2 to 14 × 1011 W/cm2. The time-evolution of the sample absorption was determined using a white LED (430–600 nm) as a probe beam, whose light was measured by a spectrometer. The probe beam does not produce any excitation of the sample. The sample is automatically agitated (5 Hz), perpendicularly to the pump and probe beams, throughout the entire experiment to homogenize the distribution of the produced Au nanoparticles.
UV-Vis spectra of the samples were measured with a Cary-17 spectrometer at room temperature. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images were obtained with a Philips CM120 scanning electron transmission microscope. The solutions used in the irradiation experiments were casted onto silicon windows and dried in vacuum at room temperature overnight to perform infrared absorption experiments. Infrared absorption spectra of these samples were recorded in a ThermoNicolet Nexus 470 Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer in transmission mode, with 32 scans and 4 cm−1 resolution.
3. Results and discussion
Using chitosan as the stabilizer and reducing agent, the production of gold nanoparticles, promoted by the excitation with fs-pulses, is illustrated in Fig. 2 . As can be seen, after 2 hours of irradiation with a pulse intensity of 6.8 × 1011 W/cm2, the spectrum exhibit absorption centered at approximately 535 nm (black line), which is the characteristic plasmon resonance band for gold nanoparticles, indicating, therefore, the formation of gold nanoparticles [13, 16, 18]. In Fig. 2 (a), the gray line shows the UV-Vis absorption of the sample before the fs-pulse irradiation, showing that it is completely transparent for wavelengths higher than 550 nm. Visually we observe a change in the color of the solution from light yellow to pink as the reaction proceeds. In supplementary experiments, we observed that no color change takes place if chitosan is not present in the sample being irradiated. It is important to note that the sample, either before or after irradiation, is completely transparent in the near infrared region, where the fs-pulse excitation is carried out (790 nm). Hence, the fs-induced reduction of gold is driven by a nonlinear optical process. Since ultra-violet light has been shown to produce nanoparticles in the presence of Au ions and chitosan (linear optical process) [13–15], the first hypothesis to explain our results would be a two-photon excitation of a state located around 395 nm (two photons of 790 nm), in a process analogous to the linear optical one [13–15]. However, open aperture Z-scan measurements [19] in a chitosan sample, carried out around 790 nm, showed no results, indicating that there is no two-photon state at this wavelength or its two-photon absorption cross-section is negligible, ruling out this hypothesis. Therefore, nonlinear ionization of chitosan could be a possible mechanism responsible for the reduction of the gold, and subsequent formation of nanoparticles as will be discussed later.
Fig. 2
In Fig. 2 (b), we present the time evolution of the plasmon band during irradiation (6.8 × 1011 W/cm2), measured with the pump-probe setup described previously. The spectra in Fig. 2 (b) were collected at time intervals of 10 minutes, with the last curve obtained at 120 minutes. The evolution of the plasmon band around 535 nm with reaction time is attributed to nucleation, growth and increasing amount of gold nanoparticles in the sample.
In order to examine the dependence of the gold nanoparticles formation with the irradiation, we normalized the curves in such a way that the last one (at 120 minutes) has a peak intensity of one. In Fig. 3 , we plot the normalized absorbance at 535 nm as a function of time for three distinct laser irradiances. While for an intensity of 4.6 × 1011 W/cm2 the plasmon band appears only after about 60 minutes, the nanoparticles formation process is much faster for the pulse irradiance of 7.0 × 1011 W/cm2. In this last case, the plasmon band starts to rise after 20 minutes. It is worth mentioning that we were only able to observe nanoparticles formation for pulse irradiances higher than 3.8 × 1011 W/cm2. By plotting the plasmon band magnitude at 80 minutes as a function of the femtosecond laser irradiance (results not shown), a slope of approximately four was observed, indicating a multi-photon induced ionization process. Such time was chosen because at it all curves are in approximately the same regime of the nanoparticles production process (see Fig. 3), i.e., the growth of the plasmon band is not close to saturation (which starts to occur at ~100 minutes) nor the plasmon absorption is too small to be properly determined. In the irradiance range used (4 × 1011 W/cm2 to 14 × 1011 W/cm2), optical breakdown was not observed, which is consistent with the breakdown threshold experimentally observed for water (approximately 100 × 1011 W/cm2 for 100 fs pulses) [20, 21]. Furthermore, to avoid white-light continuum generation, we employed an excitation beam diameter of 1.6 mm and a 2-mm path-length cuvette, preventing self-focusing.
Fig. 3
The UV-Vis absorption curves presented in Fig. 2 (b) suggested the synthesis of gold nanoparticles induced by fs-laser excitation. Such result was further confirmed by TEM measurements. TEM images of gold nanoparticles reduced/stabilized by chitosan upon fs-laser irradiation are displayed in inset of Fig. 3. In general, particles are mostly spherical in shape, although other shapes such as rods and prisms are also observed. As can be seen in inset of Fig. 3, nanoparticles with a wide size distribution are obtained, which is in agreement with the broad absorption band observed (Fig. 2). Such distribution can be attributed to the slow reduction process induced by multi-photon absorption. It is noteworthy that we did not observe any dependence of the shape or size of the produced Au nanoparticles with the laser intensity or exposure time.
By using Mie theory [22], considering separated spheres embedded in a medium with a refractive index of 1.5, an absorption peak is obtained at 535 nm (peak position experimentally observed) for nanoparticles with 20 nm of diameter. Such estimated value is in reasonable agreement with the size distribution observed in the TEM images (inset of Fig. 3), since the produced nanoparticles are in the size range from 8 nm to 50 nm.
To explore the fs-laser induced reduction process of gold with chitosan, FTIR measurement were carried out to study possible interactions and redox process which resulted in the generation of nanoparticles. All the characteristic absorption bands could be clearly observed in the FTIR spectrum of chitosan: a broad band of OH stretchings at 3500-3100 cm−1; a peak of NH stretching at around 3300 cm−1 partially overlapped by the OH stretching, aliphatic CH stretchings at around 2920, 2870 cm−1; C-N stretching at 1310 cm−1 and absorptions of NH3+ associated with acetate groups at 1560 cm−1, since this spectrum was obtained from a thin film prepared with chitosan dissolved in acetic acid solution.
Figure 4 presents FTIR spectra in the region of 1800 to 1200 cm−1 (finger print) of the films made from the pristine chitosan solution (a), gold chloride/chitosan solution (b) and the irradiated gold nanoparticle/chitosan solution (c) (obtained by fs-laser irradiation with 140 μJ for 2 hours). The rest of the spectra are not shown because there are no significant differences. No differences between the spectra obtained with chitosan solution before and after irradiation could be observed, therefore, the spectrum of the later is not shown. Interactions between the gold chloride and NH groups of chitosan can be inferred by the changes observed in the 1650-1300 cm−1 region, comparing the spectra of chitosan and chitosan/gold chloride prior to the irradiation. The band at around 1560 cm−1 shifted to 1520 cm−1 indicates that the acetate counter ions were replaced by the AuCl-, and the decreasing of the intensity of the absorption at around 1406 cm−1 corroborate this displacement. After irradiation, the increase in the intensity of the absorption at around 1620 cm−1, characteristic of NH2 (or CONH2), indicates the release of some AuCl- counter-ions [23, 24]. The appearance of the band around 1730 cm−1 in the gold/chitosan irradiated sample, characteristic of aldehyde groups, indicates that the reduction of the gold ions for the formation of the gold nanoparticles is related to the oxidation of hydroxyl groups in chitosan to carbonyl groups [15, 16]. This result agrees with our hypothesis that the production of Au nanoparticles is probably related to the ionization (oxidation) of the chitosan induced by fs-laser pulses.
Fig. 4
4. Conclusions
We have demonstrated the production of gold nanoparticles in an aqueous solution containing tetrachloroauric acid (HAuCl4) and the biopolymer chitosan, upon excitation with 30-fs pulses at 800 nm. The synthesis of the nanoparticles was monitored by the plasmon resonance band, while the shapes (spheres, rods and prisms) and dimensions (8-50 nm) of the nanoparticles were determined by transmission electron microscopy. Our results indicate that fs-pulses induce the oxidation of hydroxyl to carbonyl groups in chitosan, leading, subsequently, to the reduction of gold ions and consequent production of nanoparticles. Therefore, the approach presented here can open new ways to produce metallic nanoparticles in solution, for instance, by applying fs-pulse shaping methods to control the process. Furthermore, such approach could be employed with other stabilizers or reducing agents.
This work was supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).
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Volume 5, Issue 2 is now available, please click here to view the Journal.
Lucy, considered to be the ancestor to all humanity was a very short creature about three and a half feet tall, weighing some 60 to 65 pounds and lived around 3.2 million years ago in Ethiopia. Perhaps the growth period among the australopithecines was much shorter than that of the modern day humans and hence simply by this yardstick, there has to be a lot of difference in body size between them. The longer the growth period the larger the body size
and this is what seemed to happen to the humans during evolutionary history. Recently Mark Grabowski, a researcher at American Museum of Natural History, New York,observed in his research paper that "Bigger brains led to bigger bodies... as over the last four million years, brain size and body size increased substantially in our human ancestors" (Current Anthropology, Vol. 57, 174-196, April 2016). These observations were not new and were clearly understood by the scientific community earlier also. However, numerous hypotheses put forth had emphasized the role of natural selection on different traits independently. But none of them had gone in the direction of a correlated response to natural
selection in favour of enlarging the brain size and the body size together. These viewpoints had concluded that increase in brain size and body size were the products of separate natural selection forces. However, Mark Grabowski states that "some genes cause variation in both brain and body size, with the result that selection on either trait can lead to a correlated response in the unselected trait." This is a new explanation to the problem. It highlights the role of correlated outcomes of the natural selection phenomena occurring to one trait but affecting the other trait even if that is not selected for. It is similar to saying that as the brain size increased from Lucy to Homo erectus so did the body size as if the animal pulled itself up and increased in size proportionately as well to keep pace with the increase in brain size.
Brain use has been maximizing in the human ancestors and the brain size was rapidly increasing. Strong selection pressures for increasing the brain size has been happening which may be the primary cause for an increase in the body size as well so as to accommodate a larger brain within a larger body.
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Bethenny Frankel (born November 3, 1970) is an American reality television personality, talk show host, author, chef, and entrepreneur. She founded Skinnygirl Cocktails, authored four self-help books and hosted the talk show, Bethenny. Frankel has ap...peared on The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, The Real Housewives of New York City and was the subject of the reality television series Bethenny Ever After.
Connect any celebrity with Bethenny Frankel to see how closely they are linked... romantically!
Isn't she now dating Michael Cerussi,III? Why isn't this updated?
Her religion isn't Jewish
Her own words:
"No, I don't consider myself Jewish. My dad was Jewish and my mom converted ... but I don't think of myself as Jewish."
Google "Momlogic Bethany Frankel Jewish"
She also said: "I went to Catholic school because my stepfather was Catholic"
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July 28, 2016
Chase CEO tops list of best paid bankers
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., made more money than any other banker in the world last year.
Equilar, a company that provides research on executive compensation, reported that Dimon made $27.6 million in total compensation last year. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein came in next with earnings of $23.4 million.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Williams on July 28, 2016 10:56 AM
July 27, 2016
Columbus Brewing Co. releasing Creeper in bottles
First it was Bodhi, now it's Creeper.
Columbus Brewing Co. is making good on a promise to start bottling more of its specialty, hard to find beers this year. Creeper, possibly more renown than Bodhi given its scarcity and the fact that it won a gold medal at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival (Bodhi won bronze), will be released in bottles Sept. 24. Details of the event will come soon, but chances are it will be modeled after the Bodhi party.
Bodhi was released July 16 at a dual-wave, ticketed party at CBC's production facility. The event was $100 and that included a case of bottles, a T-shirt, pint glass, plastic cup and canvas bag. A case of Bodhi by itself would run $60.
Creeper is a big beer at 10 percent alcohol by volume and features an ever-changing hop bill, hence the name.Posted by JD Malone on July 27, 2016 04:17 PM
July 27, 2016
Ohio economy grows by 1.4 percent during the winter
When it comes to economic growth, Ohio was in the middle of the pack for the first three months of 2016.
A new federal report shows Ohio's economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.4 percent in the first quarter. That's 25th in the country and second best in the group of five states classified as Great Lake states, trailing only Michigan, which grew at a 2.6 percent rate in the first quarter.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Williams on July 27, 2016 12:05 PM
July 27, 2016
Meijer recalls salads and sandwiches
The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a recall of some salads and sandwiches sold at Meijer stores in the past week due to a possible salmonella contamination. The salads and sandwiches were sold at Meijer stores from July 20 through July 25.
"The salads and sandwiches contain a cooked egg ingredient sourced from Prime Foods, LLC, a Meijer supplier. Prime Foods LLC has notified Meijer of a positive test for Salmonella on their product," according to the USDA recall notice.
The recalled products include:
Meijer 1-pound Macaroni salad; Meijer 3-pound macaroni salad; Meijer 1-pound Amish potato salad; Meijer 3-pound Amish potato salad; Markets of Meijer seashell macaroni salad; Markets of Meijer tuna salad sandwich; Markets of Meijer egg salad sandwich; Meijer egg salad spread; Meijer chicken salad spread.
Customers can return any recalled product to a Meijer store for a full refund. For more information consumers can contact Meijer at 800-543-3704.Posted by JD Malone on July 27, 2016 10:40 AM
July 25, 2016
Do you know how much you'll need for a comfortable retirement?
Do you have any idea how much money you'll need to retire? Better yet, have you even thought about how much you'll need in retirement?
If that kind of thing hasn't crossed your mind, you aren't alone.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Williams on July 25, 2016 12:59 PM
July 22, 2016
Ohio AG warns of police, fire charity scams
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine warns Ohioans that charity scams might be making the rounds.
Some consumers have reported calls from vague entities asking for donations to "support wounded police officers and firefighters, underfunded departments, scholarship funds for families of officers and other cause," according to a press release from DeWine's office.
"Charity scams take money away from legitimate organizations," DeWine said in the release. "While we encourage people to be generous, we also encourage them to be cautious. A little research can go a long way. If you get a call asking for a donation, check it out to make sure it's not a scam."
According to the release, here are signs of a potential charity scam:
- Make vague claims about a cause.
- Use a name similar to a well-known organization.
- Provide little or no detailed information.
- Refuse to answer questions.
- Refuse to provide a call-back number.
- Use a "spoofed" phone number.
- Demand immediate payment.
- Ask for payment via wire transfer or prepaid card.
- Ask for payment to an individual instead of an organization.
Here is some more useful information when trying to determine if a charity is genuine: To find out if an organization is registered with the Ohio Attorney General's Office or to report suspicious activity, contact the Ohio Attorney General's Office at 800-282-0515 or www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov.Posted by JD Malone on July 22, 2016 02:36 PM
July 21, 2016
Family income up a bit in June
Household incomes rose slightly in June.
New research from Sentier shows annual household income in June was $57,206, an increase of $231 from May.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Williams on July 21, 2016 11:47 AM
July 20, 2016
City Barbeque named an up-and-coming concept
City Barbeque is growing far beyond its central Ohio roots and people are taking notice.
QSR Magazine, a trade publication, named City to its list of 10 up-and-coming barbeque restaurants. With 28 stores in a handful of states, the Dublin-based company is the second largest on the list, behind Billy Sims BBQ, a Tulsa, Okla., outfit with more than 50 stores.
Rounding out the list were chains from New York, Florida, Chicago, Colorado and Texas. Another Ohio joint landed among the 10, Canton-based Old Carolina Barbeque.
City recently sold a big chunk of itself to a private equity firm to fuel expansion and plans to open more stores in target markets like North Carolina.
Read the report here, qsrmagazine.com/exclusives/10-bbq-fast-casuals-watch.Posted by JD Malone on July 20, 2016 04:02 PM
July 20, 2016
Many consumers continuing to avoid stock market
Despite the stock market's historic run, many consumers continued to stay away.
A new Bankrate.com survey finds that 23 percent of consumers prefer cash investments for money that they won't need for the next 10 years. Meanwhile, just 16 percent say they would invest that money in stocks.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Williams on July 20, 2016 10:41 AM
July 19, 2016
How much are high school students willing to borrow to pay for college?
Many high school students apparently have a ways to go when it comes to understanding exactly how much they'll need to pay for college.
A survey from CentSai Adulting, a place where teenagers can learn about money, found that 76 percent of teens believe a four-year degree is worth the price, but 53 percent say they're willing to borrow only up to $10,000 to get that degree.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Williams on July 19, 2016 11:09 AM
July 19, 2016
Fort Rapids remains in limbo
Seven months after Fort Rapids hotel and waterpark abruptly closed, the property remains in limbo. The 10-year-old facility, near I-70 and Hamilton Road, has remained shuttered since Feb. 22, when Columbus police posted a notice that the business would need to cease operations for safety reasons. The closure left some people who held reservations scrambling for other accommodations, including some who planned to attend the annual Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus.Continue ReadingPosted by Marla Rose on July 19, 2016 11:05 AM
July 18, 2016
Fed official worries that the number of unbanked could grow
The decline in the number of bank offices has one official from the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank worried that it could increase the number of people who don't have access to a bank.
A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. study from 2013 found that 7.7 percent of households don't use conventional bank services and products. The study found that 20 percent of households are underbanked in that those households use some conventional bank products and services, but also depend on non-bank sources such as payday lenders or checking-cashing services.Continue ReadingPosted by Mark Williams on July 18, 2016 11:03 AM


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