Single crystal silver nanowires prepared by the metal amplification method

Barbic, Mladen; Mock, Jack J.; Smith, D. R.; Schultz, S.

doi:10.1063/1.1476071

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“…For example, Barbic and co-workers have demonstrated the use of electroless deposition in generating single-crystalline nanowires of silver in the channels of a polycarbonate membrane via a self-catalyzed process. [80] Neumann and co-workers have also shown that pulse electrodeposition could be exploited to selectively grow either single-crystalline or polycrystalline copper nanowires. [81] It was also observed that formation of single-crystalline wires of Pb required a significant departure from the equilibrium conditions (e.g., with a greater overpotential) than those required for the formation of polycrystalline samples.…”

Section: Channels In Porous Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

One‐Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

Xia¹,

Yang²,

et al. 2003

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This article provides a comprehensive review of current research activities that concentrate on one‐dimensional (1D) nanostructures—wires, rods, belts, and tubes—whose lateral dimensions fall anywhere in the range of 1 to 100 nm. We devote the most attention to 1D nanostructures that have been synthesized in relatively copious quantities using chemical methods. We begin this article with an overview of synthetic strategies that have been exploited to achieve 1D growth. We then elaborate on these approaches in the following four sections: i) anisotropic growth dictated by the crystallographic structure of a solid material; ii) anisotropic growth confined and directed by various templates; iii) anisotropic growth kinetically controlled by supersaturation or through the use of an appropriate capping reagent; and iv) new concepts not yet fully demonstrated, but with long‐term potential in generating 1D nanostructures. Following is a discussion of techniques for generating various types of important heterostructured nanowires. By the end of this article, we highlight a range of unique properties (e.g., thermal, mechanical, electronic, optoelectronic, optical, nonlinear optical, and field emission) associated with different types of 1D nanostructures. We also briefly discuss a number of methods potentially useful for assembling 1D nanostructures into functional devices based on crossbar junctions, and complex architectures such as 2D and 3D periodic lattices. We conclude this review with personal perspectives on the directions towards which future research on this new class of nanostructured materials might be directed.

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Section: Channels In Porous Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

One‐Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

Xia¹,

Yang²,

et al. 2003

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“…Rapid advances in recent years in fabrication techniques for nanowires, 49,50 nanotips, 51 and subwavelength dielectric waveguides 52,53 put such a system in experimental reach. Quantum dots or single color centers might serve as physical realizations of solid-state emitters, which could be used to achieve strong-coupling cavity QED and quantum information devices on a chip at optical frequencies.…”

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Strong coupling of single emitters to surface plasmons

Sørensen²,

et al. 2007

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We propose a method that enables strong, coherent coupling between individual optical emitters and electromagnetic excitations in conducting nanostructures. The excitations are optical plasmons that can be localized to subwavelength dimensions. Under realistic conditions, the tight confinement causes optical emission to be almost entirely directed into the propagating plasmon modes via a mechanism analogous to cavity quantum electrodynamics. We first illustrate this result for the case of a nanowire, before considering the optimized geometry of a nanotip. We describe an application of this technique involving efficient single-photon generation on demand, in which the plasmons are efficiently outcoupled to a dielectric waveguide. Finally, we analyze the effects of increased scattering due to surface roughness on these nanostructures.

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“…[34,35] Silver and copper nanowires have also been synthesized in hard templates such as polycarbonate or PAO using electroless deposition, [22] DC electrodeposition, [36][37][38][39][40] and AC electrodeposition. [41,42] However, only the method of AC electrodeposition in PAO templates is amenable to scale-up in order to achieve kilogram production of nanowires.…”

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Low Electrical Percolation Threshold of Silver and Copper Nanowires in Polystyrene Composites

Gelves

Lin

Sundararaj

et al. 2006

Adv Funct Materials

175

133

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Silver and copper nanowires have been synthesized using a scalable method of AC electrodeposition into porous aluminum oxide templates, which produces gram quantities of metal nanowires ca. 25 nm in diameter and up to 5 and 10 μm in length for Ag and Cu, respectively. The nanowires have been used to prepare polystyrene nanocomposites by solution processing. Electrical resistivity measurements performed on polymer nanocomposites containing different volume fractions of metal indicate that low percolation thresholds of nanowires are attained between compositions of 0.25 and 0.75 vol %.

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Single crystal silver nanowires prepared by the metal amplification method

Cited by 116 publications

References 19 publications

One‐Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

One‐Dimensional Nanostructures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications

Strong coupling of single emitters to surface plasmons

Low Electrical Percolation Threshold of Silver and Copper Nanowires in Polystyrene Composites

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