“…In these studies, the presence of polyol and oxygen (Fievet et al, 1989;Figlarz et al, 1985;Kurihara et al, 1995;Wiley et al, 2004;Kvítek et al, 2008;Hara et al, 2015) plays a significant important role in synthesis and growth of nanoparticles. -ray and X-ray radiolysis have also enabled synthesis of the various metal NPs; this synthetic route has emerged owing to a growing interest in the fundamental physics, chemistry and engineering of light sources (Ma et al, 2000;Rosenberg et al, 1998;Borse et al, 2004a,b;Yang et al, 2006;Wang et al, 2011;Karadas et al, 2005;Lee et al, 2003;Remita et al, 2005Remita et al, , 2007Dey, 2005Dey, , 2011Bá rta et al, 2010;Yamaguchi et al, 2015Yamaguchi et al, , 2016Bhati et al, 2016). In particular, the advantage of performing radiolysis using synchrotron radiation is its atomic level of processing accuracy; fine control ISSN 1600-5775 # 2017 International Union of Crystallography is possible over irradiation parameters such as photon energy, band width, flux, polarization and elapsed time.…”