Towards a Reproducible Synthesis of High Aspect Ratio Gold Nanorods

Figure 1

TEM image of an area with representative product distribution in samples containing low aspect ratio gold nanorods, prepared according to the seed-mediated method (in presence of small quantities of silver ions [3, 4, 7–9]). This image strongly resembles those reported elsewhere and shows that the synthesis of low aspect ratio gold nanorods is well reproducible (in contrast to high aspect ratio nanorods described so far).