Does anyone have any experience with using sodium citrate (tri-sodium citrate-dihydrate) for making colloidal silver?
As I understand it, it can be used both as electrolyte and as stabilizing agent, but probably not as a reducing agent.
My experience so far, is that it works well to add 1 ml 0.1 mol sodium citrate for 1 liter as electrolyte, but glucose (or similar) must be used as reducing agent. And adding additional citrate for stabilizing the nanoparticles only work for lower concentrations.