Although silver nanowire meshes have already demonstrated sheet resistance and optical transmittance comparable to those of sputter-deposited indium tin oxide thin films, other critical issues including surface morphology, mechanical adhesion and flexibility have to be addressed before widely employing silver nanowire networks as transparent conductors in optoelectronic devices. Here, we demons...

Super-stretchable fiber conductor with high conductivity and robust mechanical endurance is fabricated by simply dip-coating silver nanowires on electrospun elastomer yarn.

In this work, we report first-principles calculations of the electronic structure of silver infinite nanotubes, chains and nanowires. For the purpose of this study, the focus is on two specific types of silver nanostructures. We have calculated the electronic structures for the silver (2,3) and the silver (3,4) extended nanostructures. For the (2,3) structure, we modeled the single-wall tube, a...

The effects of anodizing condition and post treatment on the growth of nickel nanowires, were investigated. A two-step anodizing process was applied in phosphoric and oxalic acid solution. Nickel electrochemical plating was applied to fill Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) pores. For pore filling enhancement, AAO surfaces were treated by silver predeposition. After electroplating, aluminum and oxide ...

A transparent conducting film composed of regular networks of silver nanowires is obtained by combining a soft solution process (Tollens' reaction) and nanoimprint lithography. The solution-grown nanowire networks show a threefold higher conductivity than grids obtained by metal evaporation. This is due to the larger grain size in the solution-grown nanowires, which results in a strong reductio...

Composite made of multiwalled carbon nanotubes coated with silver was fabricated by an electroless deposition process. The thickness of silver layer is about 40 to 60 nm, characterized as nano-crystalline with (111) crystal orientation along the nanotube's axial direction. The characterization of silver/carbon nanotube [Ag/CNT] nanowire has shown the large current carrying capability, and the e...

Fabrication of silver nanowires on a domain-patterned lithium niobate template by inducing a photochemical reaction in an aqueous solution is reported. Silver deposition occurs preferentially along the domain boundaries which separate antiparallel domains. The nanowires can reach lengths of hundreds of micrometres, and their location can be controlled by generating domain patterns of a desired ...

A two-step procedure was implemented to obtain tungsten oxide nanowires (WO3) doped with cobalt or silver oxide nanoparticles from metal-organic precursors, W(CO)6, Co(acac)2 and Ag(acac)2. In the first step, nanowires were grown at 400 °C using an aerosol assisted chemical vapor deposition system (AA-CVD) and subsequently annealed at 500 °C for 2 h. In the second step, metal loading (at differ...

Exploiting the concepts learnt from nature to build new nanomaterials from the bottom up is critical for the efficient design of complex nanodevices. We demonstrate for the first time that the capacity of the α-synuclein protein to assemble into nanofibres can be used for the synthesis of metallic nanowires. Silver and platinum nanowires with controlled diameters, ranging from 15 to 125 nm, hav...