Recently, the capability of H2O2 for transforming starchstabilized silver nanospheres to nanoprisms with controllable
LSPR wavelengths has been demonstrated [52].
The role of H2O2 as a mild reducing agent was clearly explained with corroborated experimental evidences.
The mechanism of the shape transformation process was thoroughly analyzed from spectroscopic data of the colloids using the multivariate curve resolutionealternative least squares (MCReALS) analysis.
The chemometric results corroborated the visual observation that the nanoplates developed with the expense of the nanospheres.
Moreover, the successive growth of the large nanoplates persists with the expense of the small nanoplates [53]