title: Citrate-assisted synthesis of prickly nickel microwires and their surface modification with silver.
abstract: A new type of prickly nickel microwires assembled by thornlike nanocrystals was fabricated through a simple chemical reduction route with the assistance of citrate. Thus-prepared nickel wires were subsequently morphology-retained modified with a thin silver shell via transmetallation. Compared with the uncoated sample, the Ni(core)-Ag(shell) wires exhibited much-enhanced oxidation resistance, slightly changed magnetic properties and stark different catalysis for the creation of carbon particles in pyrolyzing acetone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiaomin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.forename: Junhao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Yongfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Huagui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zheng