High-Yield Synthesis of Gold Nanorods with Longitudinal SPR Peak Greater than 1200 nm Using Hydroquinone as a Reducing Agent

January 2013Chemistry of Materials 25(8):1450–1457

DOI: 10.1021/cm303661d

Leonid VigdermanEugene R Zubarev

Hi Cynthia,

We've used the attached protocol in my former group and had great results synthesizing AuNRs with high yield.

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Dear Cynthia, in addition to the relevant literature references which have already been suggested, it always pays off to directly search the "Publications" section of RG to find and access helpful articles about a certain topic. For example, I carried out a search for the term "high yield gold nanorods":

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=publication&query=high%20yield%20gold%20nanorods

Among the papers listed here is the following useful article:

Seedless synthesis of high aspect ratio gold nanorods with high yield

Article Seedless synthesis of high aspect ratio gold nanorods with high yield

This is one of the papers in the list which have been posted as public full text. Thus you can download it as pdf file. Please read particularly the Introduction of this article in which a number of other interesting research papers about the synthesis and applications of gold nanorods are cited.

I hope this helps. Good luck with your work and best wishes!

Dear Cynthia Sangang

Adding to previous responses, I suggest you read these 2 articles, which are very related to your topic and I think, they be helpful for you.

Good Luck

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