Gold seed-assisted synthesis of silver nanomaterials under microwave heating

We report a low-temperature process for preparing templateless and polymerless silver nanomaterials in the presence of gold seeds under microwave (MW) heating. In addition to spherical nanoparticles, silver nanorods are also produced. Key aspect for the production of nanorods is the addition of adequate volume of gold seeds. This finding demonstrates that the combination of MW heating synthesis method in the presence of gold seeds is a good approach to prepare templateless and polymerless silver nanorods.