Hard template synthesis of metal nanowires

Synthesis of mild–hard AAO templates for studying magnetic interactions between metal nanowires

Template-grown metal nanowires.

The growth of metal nanowires using membranes as hard templates is reviewed. The method provides access to arrays of single-crystal metal nanowires and to quasi-one-dimensional metal nanostructures with controlled compositional variation along their length. Recent applications of these kinds of nanowires to problems in superconductivity, optical spectroscopy and sensing, and catalytic conversio...

Template-directed synthesis, characterization and electrical properties of Au–TiO2–Au heterojunction nanowires

The feasibility of synthesizing metal–oxide–metal (MOM) heterojunction nanowires in the Au–TiO2–Au system is demonstrated. The synthesis method presented here entails sequential electroplating of Au and electro-deposition of amorphous titanium oxide (TiOx ) inside nanoholes of anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) templates. This is followed by dissolving the template, and heat-treating the released nan...

RECENT RESEARCH PROGRESS ON PREPARATION OF SILVER NANOWIRES BY SOFT SOLUTION METHOD, PREPARATION OF GOLD NANOTUBES AND Pt NANOTUBES FROM RESULTANT SILVER NANOWIRES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN CONDUCTIVE ADHESIVE

This review concentrates on the various chemical routes for synthesis of silver nanowires by soft solution methods, and also the production of gold nanotubes and Pt nanotubes from different templates. After a comprehensive comparison between the developed methods, it is concluded that the soft solution method has obvious advantages and is the most promising route for the mass production of silv...

Flow-enabled self-assembly of large-scale aligned nanowires.

One-dimensional nanowires enable the realization of optical and electronic nanodevices that may find applications in energy conversion and storage systems. Herein, large-scale aligned DNA nanowires were crafted by flow-enabled self-assembly (FESA). The highly oriented and continuous DNA nanowires were then capitalized on either as a template to form metallic nanowires by exposing DNA nanowires ...