title: Ultrathin single-crystalline silver nanowire arrays formed in an ambient solution phase.
abstract: We report the synthesis of single-crystalline silver nanowires of atomic dimensions. The ultrathin silver wires with 0.4 nanometer width grow up to micrometer-scale length inside the pores of self-assembled calix[4]hydroquinone nanotubes by electro-/photochemical redox reaction in an ambient aqueous phase. The present subnanowires are very stable under ambient air and aqueous environments, unlike previously reported metal wires of approximately 1 nanometer diameter, which existed only transiently in ultrahigh vacuum. The wires exist as coherently oriented three-dimensional arrays of ultrahigh density and thus could be used as model systems for investigating one-dimensional phenomena and as nanoconnectors for designing nanoelectronic devices.
authors.affiliation: National Creative Research Initiative Center for Superfunctional Materials, Department of Chemistry, Division of Molecular and Life Sciences, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Hyojadong, Namgu, Pohang 790-784, Korea.
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: S C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Bae
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jeong
authors.forename: K S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Kim