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Length made to order: Controlled reduction of Pt(acac)2 and decomposition of Fe(CO)5 in a mixture of oleylamine and octadecene leads to the facile synthesis of FePt nanowires and nanorods with diameters of 2–3 nm (see TEM image). The length of the nanowires/nanorods is tunable from greater than 200 nm down to 20 nm by simply controlling the volume ratio of oleylamine and octadecene.
Wang et al. (Fri,) studied this question.