“…Analogy to the monolayer-confined synthesis, octylamine/water bilayer systems was employed by Adair et al (1998) to grow a number of nanoscale platelets including CdS, (Adair and Suvaci, 2000;Adair et al, 1998) Ag (Yener et al, 2002) and SiO 2 (Wang et al, 2006) at ambient condition. When mixed with water under appropriate weight ratio, the amines will orient in such a way that allows organic layer and aqueous layer to alternate in the solution, mainly because of the amphiphilic nature of the organic molecules (Adair et al, 1998;Ralston et al, 1942). The thickness of each layer is directly related to the amine to water weight ratio, which provides an effective pathway to manipulate the template thereby the nanoparticle thickness during synthesis.…”