Silver vanadium oxides nanobelts and their chemical reduction to silver nanobelts

Uniform β-AgVO3 monocrystalline nanobelts with length up to 100 μm are synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method using AgNO3 and NH4VO3 as precursors. The as-obtained β-AgVO3 nanobelts exhibit relatively high photochemical stability under UV irradiation in the alcoholic solution. In addition, these β-AgVO3 nanobelts have been successfully transformed into one-dimensional ordered assemblies consisting of plate-like primary Ag nanocrystals.