“…The recent researches on Ag nanoflakes dispersed in solution reported that the UV-Vis spectra of the samples exhibited three absorption peaks, the first peak at around 325 -350 nm, the second peak at around 400 -450 nm, and the third peak at the longest wavelength [12,14,15]. These peaks were attributed to outer quadrupole resonance, outer dipole resonance, and inner dipole resonance, respectively [11,12,14,15]. However, some other researches proposed different reasons for the appearance of the first and second peaks [16,17].…”