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Subrata Kundu1, Vivek Maheshwari, Sanjun Niu
1Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68588-0643, USA.
Nanotechnology
|July 7, 2011
Abstract:
Silver nanocubes were synthesized for the first time in large quantities on gold seed in the presence of a polyelectrolyte using microwave heating for 60-120 s. Our experiment indicates that the polyelectrolyte directs the growth of the particle in a specified crystallographic direction resulting in the faceted particle, i.e. a nanocube. The nanocubes are stable for at least 2 months in ambient conditions.
