Silver metal nanostructures have gained much interest, due to their utility in various fields, based on their unique properties at nanosize. Tremendous research efforts have been made to establish synthetic methods to manipulate their shape and size. The most challenging synthesis in silver nanostructures has been known as a plate-like shape having a few nanometers size thickness and high aspect ratio. Here, we demonstrate a novel and facile synthetic route for ultrathin (≤1 nm) silver nanosheets using silver carboxylthiolate as precursor. Such silver thiolate formed single-layered colloid in aqueous basic solution, due to the electrostatic repulsion between carboxylate groups. These single layers of silver thiolates were stabilized within the interlayer space of layered double hydroxide (LDH). When silver thiolates confined in LDHs were calcined under reductive atmosphere, the LDHs effectively suppressed the vertical growth of silver crystals.

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