Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed, inter alia, to novel methods for producing substrates and articles of manufacture that possess a passive barrier to the passage of crawling insects and the related substrates and articles of manufacture. An exemplary article of manufacture can be a pet food bowl, a pet food container, a kitchen cupboard, a trash receptacle, a garbage receptacle, a foundation of a structure, a bee hive, a bird feeder, a plate, a bowl or a pedestal suitable for cake, cupcakes or other food item. The crawling insects can be, for example, an ant (leaf eater, Argentine, carpenter, pharaoh, fire), a spider, a cockroach, a bed bug, termites, an aphid, an arthropod, a tick, a flea, a silver fish, a thrip, a gnat, an aphid, a Japanese beetle, a beetle (potato and bean), a flea beetle, a fleahopper, a squash bug, a slug, a leaf hopper, a harlequin bug, a milk weed bug, a mite, a louse, a scorpion, a millipede, a centipede or a gypsy moth.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to novel methods for the solution-based production of silver nanowires by adaptation of the polyol process. Some embodiments of the present invention can be practiced at lower temperature and/or at higher concentration than previously described methods. In some embodiments reactants are added in solid form rather than in solution. In some embodiments, an acid compound is added to the reaction.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to novel methods for the solution-based production of silver nanowires by adaptation of the polyol process. Some embodiments of the present invention can be practiced at lower temperature and/or at higher concentration than previously described methods. In some embodiments reactants are added in solid form rather than in solution. In some embodiments, an acid compound is added to the reaction.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to novel methods for the solution-based production of silver nanowires by adaptation of the polyol process. Some embodiments of the present invention can be practiced at lower temperature and/or at higher concentration than previously described methods. In some embodiments reactants are added in solid form rather than in solution. In some embodiments, an acid compound is added to the reaction.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to novel methods for the solution-based production of silver nanocubes. This method differs, inter alia, from the traditional polyol method in that reactants (such as AgNO3 and/or PVP) can be added to the reaction mixture in solid form rather than as a solution.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to novel methods for the solution-based production of silver nanowires by adaptation of the polyol process. Some embodiments of the present invention can be practiced at lower temperature and/or at higher concentration than previously described methods. In some embodiments reactants are added in solid form rather than in solution. In some embodiments, an acid compound is added to the reaction.