H2O2-Assisted One-pot Synthesis of Silver Nanoplates Using Polymeric Materials

摘要

The synthesis of plate-like silver nanomaterials, or silver nanoplates (AgNPLs), has been a highly fascinating issue for the past decade since the first photochemical synthesis of silver nanoprisms. To date, several other synthetic developments for AgNPLs have been also reported, such as ligand-assisted chemical reduction, and electrochemical, or sono-chemical reactions. Among them, seed-mediated growth method is particularly attractive because it is capable of controlling the size of AgNPLs, and is highly reproducible. Despite its versatility, however, the method should suffer from major drawbacks such as (1) complicated multi-step procedures composed of (a) seed preparation and (b) its growth, and (2) essential time duration between those steps. To overcome these obstacles, recently a few one-step syntheses for AgNPLs have been reported. Further development of more advanced one-step synthetic methods, however, is still substantially required.