[Problem] To provide a method with which silver nanoparticles having excellent physical properties are obtained, and with which the discharged amount of amines with a strong irritant odour is restricted. [Solution] A method for producing silver nanoparticles, said method comprising reacting a thermally decomposable silver compound (a) and an amine compound (b) that can form a complex with (a) and thereby forming a complex, and heating the obtained complex to cause the thermal decomposition thereof and thereby forming the silver nanoparticles, said method being characterised in that (b) is an amino alcohol (b1) that is a linear amino alcohol, has one each of an amino group and a hydroxyl group at both ends of the linear molecule of said amino alcohol, and has an ether bond in the linear molecule structure.
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