Facile Cl--mediated hydrothermal synthesis of large-scale Ag nanowires from AgCl hydrosol

We have developed a facile Cl--mediated hydrothermal method to synthesize uniform Ag nanowires with diameters of about 40 nm and lengths up to several micrometers on a large scale, using PVP as a very mild reducing agent and AgCl hydrosol as an initiating agent.