（1. The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University （2. Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Devices, Southeast University
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10.7502/j.issn.1674-3962.2016.01.01
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Nanosilver, comprising silver nanoparticles, is an emerging silver-based functional material. Over the past fifteen years, the progress of solution-synthesis of nanosilver developed rapidly and the excellent properties of nanosilver, including plasmonics, electronics and broad-spectrum antibacterial bioactivities, were extensively investigated and used. Numerious studies indicated that the properties of nanosilver are highly dependent on their size and shape. Therefore controllable synthesis of nanosilver is crucial for optimizing their corresponding properties and expanding the field of applications. This review provides a brief account of solution-synthesis of methods that produce nanosilver controllably. It is organized into four sections: The first section discusses the nucleation and formation of seeds from which nanosilver evolved into their final morphologies under proper reaction kinetics. The second section summarizes the main methods for solution-synthesis of nanosilver. The third section discusses the synthesis and research progress of the nanosilver with different dimensional structures. In the fourth section, some perspectives on the controllable solution-synthesis of nanosilver for future work are presented.