Facile synthesis of silver nano/micro-ribbons or saws assisted by polyoxomolybdate as mediator agent and vanadium(iv) as reducing agent

Original and effective syntheses of crystalline silver wires and saw bundles, using reduced Keggin polyoxomolybdovanadate (POM) as mediator and reducing agent, were performed in acetonitrile at room temperature; several parameters influencing the final silver 1D-structures, with micrometric length and nanometric thickness, were varied: the nature of the POM, silver salts, vanadium(iv) source and the mild conditions.