I want to synthesize gold Nanorods by seed method. According to articles CTAB has been used in all cases, but I don't have access to it.Is there any substitution?
The most used surfactant is the CTAB but you can replace it with other molecules i.e BDAC, But, due to the growth mechanism I think that you will need a molecule with a long carbon chain (optionally) and always a high concentrations of halides (for the metastability), see the link below.