A general route to macroscopic hierarchical 3D nanowire networks.

[*] D. Wang, H. Luo, R. Kou, M. P. Gil, Prof. Y. Lu Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118 (USA) Fax: (+1)504-865-6744 E-mail: [email protected] S. Xiao Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (USA) Dr. V. O. Golub Advanced Materials Research Institute University of New Orleans New Orleans, LA 70118 (USA) Prof. Z. Yang State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry Joint Laboratory of Polymer Science and Materials Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science Beijing, 100080 (P. R. China) Fax: (+86)10-6255-9373 E-mail: [email protected] Prof. C. J. Brinker Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico 1001 University Blvd. SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 (USA) [**] The work was partially funded by NASA (Grants NAG-1-02070 and NCC-3-946), the Office of Naval Research, Louisiana Board of Regents (Grant LEQSF(2001-04)-RD-B-09), the National Science Foundation (Grant NSF-DMR-0124765 and CAREER Award), and the National Science Foundation of China (Grants 50325313 and 20128004). We thank Dr. Jibao He for help with TEM imaging measurements. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.angewandte.org or from the author. Angewandte Chemie