Nanorods polyol methods

M. Tsuji et al.. Synthesis of gold nanorods and nanowires by a microwave-polyol method. Materials Letters, 58(17, 18), 2326-2330 (2004). 

Tsuji, M., Nishizawa, Y, Hashimoto, M., and Tsuji, T. (2004) Syntheses of silver nanofilms, nanorods, and nanowires by a microwave-polyol method in the presence of Pt seeds and pol5rvlnylpyrrolidone, Chem. Lett, 33(4), 370-371. 

Interestingly, processes involving the use of polyol/alcohol solvents appear as a form of modified/improved version of the polyol method, in which the polyol/ alcohol solvent is assisted by a specific (and generally stronger) reducing agent, such as hydrazine [215, 216), sodium phosphinate monohydrate [212] or ascorbic acid [210, 211). The simultaneous presence of PVP and solvents with alcoholic moiehes made it possible to obtain monodisperse copper nanocubes [211], nanoparhcle arrays and aggregates [216] or nanorods [216], as a function of the experimental conditions. 

Talja RA, Helen H, Roos YH, Jouppila K (2007) Effect of various polyols and polyol contents on physical and mechanical properties of potato starch-based films. Caibohydr Polym 67 288-297 Tam KH, Djurisic AB, Chan CMN, Xi YY, Tse CW, Leung YH, Chan WK, Leung FCC (2008) Antibacterial activity of ZnO nanorods prepared by a hydrothermal method. Thin Solid Films 516 6167-6174... 

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