Abstract
Gold nanoparticle is growing class of nanotechnology due to large number of uses. We synthesized stable l-methionine protected gold nanoparticles (AuNps) by in situ reduction of HAuCl4 using sodium borohydrate as reducing and l-methionine as stabilizing agent in an aqueous medium. Different parameters (pH, capping agent, precursor salt, and heating time) were optimized to see the effect on the size of particles. Double beam spectrophotometer was used to carry out the spectroscopic studies. It was observed that pH and concentration of reducing salt are deciding factors in controlling the size and morphology of AuNps. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) verified the formation of AuNPs as predicted by UV–Vis spectra. The interaction of AuNPs with l-methionine was confirmed by Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR). The reduction of 4-nitrophenol acted as standard of reaction to check the response of AuNps catalyst. Complete reduction of 4-nitrophenol was accomplished by AuNps sol in just 60 s. Fastest reduction rate was observed with smaller spherical particles. This study concluded that size and shape of AuNps can be monitored by controlling the pH, concentration of capping and reducing agent. It also provides an economical solution to aquatic environment in terms of time saving and use of small volume of catalytic solution for reduction of several other toxic organic pollutants.
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Introduction
Nanoparticle has gained considerable attention because of their tremendous applications in fields of catalysis (Prieto et al. 2013; Yu et al. 2010), sensor (Majid et al. 2006; Yan et al. 2016), imaging (Lee and El-Sayed 2006; Padmanabhan et al. 2016), drug delivery (Bhumkar et al. 2007; Yu et al. 2016), and medicine (Jain et al. 2008; Khan et al. 2015, 2017b). Among these, AuNps have remarkable attention. AuNps are extensively used in electronics (Homberger and Simon 2010), magnetic (Nealon et al. 2012), optics (Tajdidzadeh et al. 2017), homo and heterogeneous catalysis (Li et al. 2013), and in the field of biology (Ghosh et al. 2008; Safavi et al. 2008).
Variety of methods has been found in literature for the synthesis of AuNps. Among, the chemical reduction of metal salts is most convenient method. The reducing agent including sodium borohydride (Faraday 1857; Zhenjiang 2005), sodium citrate (Frens 1973; Zhang et al. 2011), carbon monoxide (Chen and Xie 2016; Lee and Meisel 1980), and alcohol (Youk et al. 2001) are mostly commonly employed in the reduction of salt to NPs. However, organic reducing agents are toxic; therefore, this study focuses on the development of eco-friendly methods for the preparation of metal NPs (Karthik et al. 2016; Khan et al. 2016, 2017a). In this decade, green synthesis of metal NPs has become a growing need to develop nontoxic, clean, environmentally friendly nanoparticles in the field which is called as green’ chemistry (Ahmad et al. 2003; Khan et al. 2016). Therefore, it is very essential and need of hour to synthesize and detailed study of metal NPs. To fulfill this research gap regarding AuNps, we synthesized stable l-methionine protected gold nanoparticles (AuNps) in the present study by in situ reduction of HAuCl4 using sodium borohydrate in an aqueous medium. Different parameters (pH, capping agent, precursor salt, and heating time) were optimized to see the effect on the size of particles. To confirm the formation of AuNps, SEM and UV–Vis spectral study were performed. FTIR analysis was practiced to get insight about the interaction of AuNps with l-methionine. The primary theme of this study is to offer a comprehensive synthetic and spectroscopic description of AuNps.
Materials and methods
Chemicals
Tetrachloroauric acid (HAuCl4) was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Chemicals, while l-methionine (C5H11NO2S) from Fluka Chemicals. Sodium borohydride (98%), acetone (97%), sodium hydroxide pellets (99%), and hydrochloric acid (37%) of analytical grade were acquired from Merck (Germany).
Synthesis of l-methionine-AuNps
Glassware was rinsed with HNO3 and then with detergent, tape water, and finally three times with deionized water. All glassware was dried in oven. All solutions were prepared in deionized water. Stock solutions of 0.015% gold chloride (HAuCl4), 0.03% l-methionine, and 1 mM 4-nitrophenol were prepared by dissolving each compound in deionized water. The pH (3–11) was regulated using 1 M NaOH and 3 M HCl Solutions. The solution of 0.01 M sodium borohydride was prepared fresh each time in deionized water. The solution of l-methionine protected AuNps was prepared taking 0.015% gold chloride (HAuCl4) in 10 ml flask. The pH of solution was adjusted. Then, 10 mM NaBH4 was added to the solution of HAuCl4 followed by addition of 0.03% l-Methionine solution, and total volume was made 10 ml by adding deionized water. Analysis of resultant solution was made using Lambda 2 UV–visible spectrometer of Perkin Elmer in the range of 400–1100 nm to observe resulting AuNps.
The effect of various parameters including pH of HAuCl4 solution, molar ratio of LM/Au, and molar concentration of NaBH4 on the synthesis process was also investigated. Optimization of pH, molar ratio, and molar concentration was carried out in the range from 3 to 13 1:1 to 6:1 and 1 to 50 mM, respectively. In kinetic study, LM-AuNps were first synthesized at optimum conditions of pH, HAuCl4 concentration, l-methionine concentration, and NaBH4 concentration, and then, their stability was checked by taking the UV spectra after different intervals of time in range from 2 h to 1 week.
Monitoring and characterization of AuNps
Double beam spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer model Lambda 35) was used to carry out the spectroscopic studies. Baseline correction was first made by putting blank (in 1 cm2 quartz cell) in both compartments. Then, the blank from working compartment was replaced by AuNps solution. In most cases, a range between 400 and 1100 was selected to record the UV/Vis spectra of analysts. The FTIR spectra of standard l-methionine protected AuNps were recorded using FTIR (Nicolet 5700 of Thermo). The SEM images were taken using Analytical Scanning Electron Microscope (Jeol, JSM 6380 Japan).
Catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol and recovery and reuse of Au nanocatalyst
Sufficient deionized water was used to dilute the 0.2 ml of 1 M 4-nitrophenol solution in quartz cell (1 cm). Then, added 0.3 ml of NaBH4 (0.1 M) solution and 0.4 ml of L.M-AuNps solution to a final volume of 3.5 ml. Replica procedure was adopted in case of other types of L.M-AuNps. UV–visible spectra were taken against a blank just after adding the last solution. A relatively faster scan of 1920 nm min−1 was taken after short intervals to check the progress.
The 100 µL of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate (bmim, PF6) was added to the L.M-AuNps treated 4-nitrophenol solution and shake well. Ionic liquid was used to collect the AuNps where these were appeared as light blackish spots on the surface of solution and separated by decantation. The AuNps were washed deionized water and used it once again for successive five cycles for catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol solution doing the same procedure.
Results and discussion
Several methods are available for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles; however, environmental issues change the trend toward green synthesis. Keeping in view, we synthesized the gold nanoparticles through green chemical route using l-methionine (amino acid) as protecting agent and sodium borohydride as reducing agent for gold chloride salt to AuNps.
Effect of the initial pH on synthesis of AuNps
The pH has tremendous correlation with size of metal particles. UV/visible spectra showed a red shift which was related with an increase in size and aggregation of nanoparticles or combination of both (Sato et al. 2003) (Fig. 1).
Distortion of electronic cloud occurred due to abundant heavier core of ionic AuNPs and interaction of light of smaller wavelength. Hence, an oscillation of electron dipolar was created and absorption of surface plasmon band was attained (Link and El-Sayed 2000). Most blue shifted peak (i.e., 505 nm) was obtained at pH 6. However, when pH of solution gradually changed from 6 to 3, broad bands along with decrease in peak intensity were observed. The decrease in peak intensity at extreme acidic conditions was due to rapid adsorption of AuNps or more interaction of l-methionine with cell walls (Kalwar et al. 2011), whereas broadening of visible spectrum at extreme acidic conditions was indication of particles formation with broad distribution in size. When pH moved to basic conditions, a red shift along with a gradual increase in peak intensity was observed. Red shift indicates the aggregation of AuNps (Link and El-Sayed 2000). At higher basic conditions, more aggregation due to more number of hydroxyl ions in solution, this caused the precipitation of AuNps and resulted in aggregation. The gradual increase in peak intensity indicated that more numbers of particles were present in solution. Three changes were observed at pH 12: (1) most red shift, (2) appearance of a significant peak with greater intensity at 963 nm which was the indication of Au nanoflower formation, and (3) significant decrease of peak intensity at 534 nm. The UV/visible spectra at pH 12 were quite sharp and red shifted (at 534 nm), indicating that most of the particles present were bigger in size. The bigger size of the particles resulted in aggregation of Au nanoflowers along nanoparticles.
Effect of reducing agent
Most blue shifted peak was observed with 10 mM NaBH4 whereas, most red shifted peaks were observed with 1 and 50 mM concentration of NaBH4 (Fig. 2).
Effect of capping agent concentration
The size of particles can be monitored by simple adjusting the molar ratio of l-methionine/Au. UV/Vis absorption peaks of AuNPs solutions showed a blue shift with increasing molar ratio of l-methionine/Au from 1:1 to 2:1 and then almost keep constant with further increasing l-methionine/Au ratio from 2:1 to 6:1. This indicates that the particle sizes decrease with increasing the molar ratio of l-methionine/Au from 1 to 2 and then keeps constant with further increasing l-methionine/Au ratio from 2 to 6 (Fig. 3).
Kinetic study
No noticeable variations in UV/visible spectra were observed over 1 week stability period which revealed that the l-methionine protected AuNps were stable for a long time. The gradual decrease in absorbance with time can be correlated with the adsorption of some particles due to interaction with cell walls. Furthermore, any SPR shift was not recorded in case of these nanoparticles. This was insignificant change in peak position and indicated that the capping reagent is playing a key role in stability of nanoparticles in solution (Rouhana et al. 2007) (Fig. 4).
Characterization of the particles
The FTIR spectroscopy revealed the interaction between l-methionine and newly fabricated AuNps. The broad band in the range of 3400–3000 cm−1 was due to stretching of NH (Ramachandran and Natarajan 2006). Some researchers also reported it at 3431 cm−1 (Lee et al. 2007). Interaction of AuNps with oxidized l-methionine caused blue shift. The encapsulation of l-methionine over AuNps surface leads to variation in IR-spectral bands, and this is in relation with ZnS: Mn nanocrystals capped with amino acids where strong peaks around 2950 and 1600 cm−1 were assigned to Zn coordinated by amino group via NH2 (Lee et al. 2007). In this case, these bands were seen at 2920 and 1580 cm−1 in l-methionine capped AuNps suggesting the encapsulation of newly formulated AuNps with l-methionine via NH2 group. The broadband at 2580 and 2621 cm−1 in β-dl-methionine also supported the evidence (Ramachandran and Natarajan 2006). This was due to presence of intermolecular hydrogen bonding between carboxyl and amino groups (N–H· ··O). Hence, this band was absent in the AuNps spectra due to encapsulation via amino linkage. This affirmed the dissociation of zwitterionic binding (Fig. 5).
SEM images of LM-AuNps, synthesized at various initial pH values of HAuCl4, showed that the particle size increases when pH moves from acidic (pH 6) to basic conditions. In case of pH 6 samples, small spherical particles were observed with 25 nm particle sizes. In case of pH 9 samples, relatively bigger spherical particles were observed with particle 100 nm particle size. However, for pH 12 sample, nanoflowers were observed along with relatively bigger spherical particles. The results of these images were in good agreement in UV/visible spectra (Fig. 6).
Application of AuNps as catalyst in 4-nitrophenol reduction
The 4-nitrophenol was used as a model to check the catalytic ability of three types of LM-AuNps.
AuNps with avg. Size 25 nm (Au Nano Catalyst-I), Spherical AuNPs with avg. Size 100 nm (Au Nano Catalyst-II), Nano Flowers along with bigger spherical AuNPs with size >100 nm (Au Nano Catalyst-III). 4-aminophenol (4-AP) was formed upon catalytic hydride reduction of 4-nitrophenol (4-NP) with sufficient amount of NaBH4 allowed a rapid comparison of catalytic activities of all three types. For each type of Au nanocatalyst, the spectral studies revealed that the 400 nm peak progressively decreased to 300 nm with time due to absorption of 4-AP (Dotzauer et al. 2009; Kuroda et al. 2009). The conversion of 4-NP to 4-AP was studied spectrophotometrically in time-dependent absorption.
Reduction of 4-nitrophenol in absence of Au nanocatalyst
The absorption of 4-NP was recorded at 317 nm in UV/visible spectra after addition of NaBH4. The spectrum underwent a red shift at 400 nm, which changed the color from light yellow to dark yellow. This indicated the nitrophenolate anion generation. Figure 7 showed unaltered peak of absorption at 400 nm which confirmed that the reduction is not achievable in absence of catalyst (Liu et al. 2006).
Reduction of 4-nitrophenol in the presence of Au nanocatalyst-I
When reduction of 4-nitrophenol was done in presence of Au nanocatalyst-I, a very quick decrease in peak intensity of 4-nitrophenol was observed at 400 nm (Fig. 8). Almost 100% reduction of 4-nitrophenol was observed in less than 60 s, indicating the activeness of catalyst.
Reduction of 4-nitrophenol in the presence of Au nanocatalyst-II
When reduction of 4-nitrophenol was carried out in the presence of Au nanocatalyst-II. A slightly decrease in efficiency was recorded and 100% reduction of 4-nitrophenol was carried out in 240 s (Fig. 9).
Reduction of 4-nitrophenol in the presence of Au nanocatalyst-III
When reduction of 4-nitrophenol was carried out in presence of Au nanocatalyst-III, gradual stepwise decrease in peak intensity of 4-nitrophenol was observed at 400 nm (Fig. 10). Almost 100% reduction of 4-nitrophenol was observed in 660 s.
Fastest reduction was observed with smaller nanoparticles and this reduction rate was decreased as size of the particles increases. Figure 11 represents a comparison of reduction efficiencies of all three types of Au nanocatalysts.
Recovery and reuse of Au nanocatalyst
After reduction of 4-nitrophenol, AuNps were recovered from treated solution with a water insoluble ionic liquid. AuNps recovered at surface of ionic liquid were washed three times with deionized water and used again for reduction of 4-nitrophenol with the same concentration of NaBH4 and 4-nitrophenol as true for above cases. This procedure was repeated for successive five cycles. Figure 12 shows stepwise reduction efficiency of reused AuNps for 4-nitrophenol collected at surface of ionic liquid for 5 cycles. The efficiency of reused ionic liquid loaded AuNps for cycles 1–5 was good but not as much efficient as it should be. The reason may be the use of very dilute concentration of gold salt for synthesis of AuNps. Therefore, the quantity of AuNps present in the volume (0.4 ml) used was very less as catalyst for reduction. However, efficiency of IL recovered AuNps can be increased using concentrated solution of AuNps. Moreover, 100% reduction in first cycle indicated the comprehensive uses of active sites for catalytic reduction of 4-nitrophenol. The agglomeration of AuNPs decreased the catalytic stepwise efficiency at ionic liquid surface after each cycle.
Conclusions
It could be concluded that size and shape of AuNps can be monitored by controlling the pH, and concentration of capping and reducing agent. In slightly acidic conditions, small spherical particles are formed, whereas at extreme basic conditions, bigger spherical particles along with nanoflowers are formed. Furthermore, AuNps particle with average size of 25 nm provides 100% reduction of 4-nitrophenol in just 60 s which prove that the particles with smaller size have best catalytic potential. This study provided an economical solution to aquatic environment for reduction of organic toxic pollutant in terms of time saving and use of small volume of catalytic solution.
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Raza, A., Javed, S., Qureshi, M.Z. et al. Synthesis and study of catalytic application of l-methionine protected gold nanoparticles. Appl Nanosci 7, 429–437 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-017-0587-6
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