Fabrication and characterisation of geometry-controlled Cu microwires in porous poly(methyl methacrylate) templates using melt co-drawing and electrochemical deposition techniques

Fabrication of Polymer Composite Fibers Embedding Ultra-Long Micro/Nanowires

“…The factors that influence the fibre size have been previously discussed (see Ref. [ 5 , 6 ]). The geometric sizes of the array obtained via this method can be precisely controlled by adjusting the preform core diameter, fiber outer diameter, and the number of iterative drawing steps.…”

“…Micro/nanowires have been attracting a great deal of attention for decades because they are arguably the most studied micro/nano material model to make functional devices [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. For example, micro/nano porous array polymer template is always used to prepare the metallic micro/nanowires, which plays a significant role in the regulation of structure and size parameters of metal micro/nanowires [ 5 , 6 ]. The micro/nanowires or composite fibers embedded with micro/nanowires are attractive building blocks for fabricating functional devices, especially complex device arrays.…”

“…For these reasons mentioned above, a simple method, namely multi-step melt co-drawing techniques [ 5 , 6 , 34 ], is proposed to prepare the micro/nano porous array polymer templates and ultra-long polymer micro/nanowires. Compared with other conventional methods, this technique possesses many advantages: (1) the size parameters of micro/nano structures can be easily controlled in a large range (from millimeter-scale to nanometer-scale); (2) the obtained arrangement morphology of the micro/nano structures exhibits excellent uniformity; (3) high yield, high repeatability, easy operation; and (4) no being limited to polymer materials.…”