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Article /cm One-Pot Controllable Synthesis of Au@Ag Heterogeneous Nanorods with Highly Tunable Plasmonic Absorption Cuncheng Li,*,† Lin Sun,† Yiqiang Sun,† and Toshiharu Teranishi*,‡ †Key Laboratory of Chemical Sensing Analysis in Universities of Shandong (University of Jinan), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, Shandong, People’s Republic of China ‡Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan S *Supporting Information ABSTRACT: It generally requires a complex workup procedure for the fabrication of Au@Ag heterogeneous nanostructures with an accurate morphology by the present multistep seed-mediated growth approaches. In this paper, we present a new and straightforward method for the controllable synthesis of uniform Au@Ag heteroge- neous nanorods (NRs) by coreduction of gold and silver sources in a one-pot polyol reaction. High-quality Au@Ag heterogeneous NRs of various aspect ratios were facilely and selectively produced in high concentration by tuning the initial experimental parameters. Our synthetic approach is highlighted by its simplicity, large-scale production, and controllability of the synthesis. Our study indicates the oxidative etching by O2/Cl− pairs plays a key role for the high-yield synthesis of uniform Au@Ag heterogeneous NRs. The size-dependent optical properties of Au@Ag heterogeneous NRs were first and systematically investigated. Our experiments reveal that Au@Ag heterogeneous NRs exhibit two strong absorption peaks t