Controlling the synthesis and assembly of silver nanostructures for plasmonic applications

M Rycenga, CM Cobley, J Zeng, W Li… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Coinage metals, such as Au, Ag, and Cu, have been important materials throughout
history.(1) Although in ancient cultures they were admired primarily for their ability to reflect …

Templated techniques for the synthesis and assembly of plasmonic nanostructures

MR Jones, KD Osberg, RJ Macfarlane… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

Nonspherical noble metal nanoparticles: colloid‐chemical synthesis and morphology control

TK Sau, AL Rogach - Advanced Materials, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Metal nanoparticles have been the subject of widespread research over the past two
decades. In recent years, noble metals have been the focus of numerous studies involving …

Shape‐controlled synthesis of metal nanostructures: the case of silver

B Wiley, Y Sun, B Mayers, Y Xia - Chemistry–A European …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of shape‐controlled synthesis is discussed by investigating the growth
mechanisms for silver nanocubes, nanowires, and nanospheres produced through a …

Mechanistic study on the replacement reaction between silver nanostructures and chloroauric acid in aqueous medium

Y Sun, Y Xia - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2004 - ACS Publications
The replacement reaction between silver nanostructures and an aqueous HAuCl4 solution
has recently been demonstrated as a versatile method for generating metal nanostructures …

Chemical synthesis of novel plasmonic nanoparticles

X Lu, M Rycenga, SE Skrabalak… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Under the irradiation of light, the free electrons in a plasmonic nanoparticle are driven by the
alternating electric field to collectively oscillate at a resonant frequency in a phenomenon …

Polyol synthesis of silver nanoparticles: use of chloride and oxygen to promote the formation of single-crystal, truncated cubes and tetrahedrons

B Wiley, T Herricks, Y Sun, Y Xia - Nano Letters, 2004 - ACS Publications
Single-crystal cubes and tetrahedrons of silver with truncated corners/edges have been
prepared for the first time in high yields by reducing silver nitrate with ethylene glycol heated …

Synthesis and properties of silver nanoparticles: advances and prospects

YA Krutyakov, AA Kudrinskiy, AY Olenin… - Russian Chemical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Conventional and novel syntheses of silver nanoparticles are considered, their advantages
and shortcomings are analysed. Attention is focused on the shape-controlled methods of …

Transformation of silver nanospheres into nanobelts and triangular nanoplates through a thermal process

Y Sun, B Mayers, Y Xia - Nano Letters, 2003 - ACS Publications
Silver has been prepared as triangular nanoplates with sharp corners and thin nanobelts by
refluxing an aqueous dispersion of spherical colloids of silver with an average diameter of …

Kinetically controlled synthesis of triangular and hexagonal nanoplates of palladium and their SPR/SERS properties

Y Xiong, JM McLellan, J Chen, Y Yin… - Journal of the …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The rapid reduction of Na2PdCl4 by ethylene glycol in the presence of poly (vinyl
pyrrolidone)(PVP) has recently been demonstrated as a convenient method of generating …