Silver nanoparticles are an intense field of research because of their vast number of significant applications including antimicrobial, optics, electronics, catalysis, and data storage. In recent years, researches on the synthesis of silver nanoparticles focused on two major approaches: preparation of colloidal solutions of silver nanoparticles and in-situ formation of silver nanoparticles in solid matrices. For the in-situ formation, the preparation processes of most substrates are usually very comp...